Sometimes even deleting SPAM can be just hilarious. After opening my inbox, I found these two magnificent emails waiting right next to each other. The first one is “Paypal” sending me ‘You’re Billing information‘. The second one wishes me a Marry Christmas. On January 6th.

I’m not saying that my grammar is perfect, but checking for typos before sending out your crappy SPAM email to thousands of people is the least you can do…

Just like last year (and 2005), Search Engine Journal is organizing the Search Blog Awards. I really am honored that, although I’ve only been blogging since June of this year, I have been nominated in the Link Building category (thanks for nominating me, Justilien ;) ). Considering the fact that my name is being mentioned together with industry professionals like Jim Boykin, Debra Mastaler and Eric Ward, this nomination sure felt like a late Christmas present.

Just like Barry, I consider the Search Blog Awards to be really important community awards as well. So if you’re planning on voting for your favorite SEO blogs, consider me as well :) . While this may sound strange, I want to make clear that I’m not aiming at the top spot in the Link Building category. This is because, well, let’s be honest; I don’t think I deserve that spot. Yet :) . The nomination already feels like winning the grand prize, so everything better than finishing last would be awesome.

You can vote right here, but please note that 5 is the highest vote, and 1 is the lowest.

It’s pretty important to keep up with Google’s latest trends, changes and technologies if you want to achieve top rankings. If you’re able to get in front of Google’s technologies, that would be even better. With the almighty Google being capable of indexing almost anything and with Google Earth in mind, here’s my try on beating Google’s technology: Google Earth Links®.

Index that, Google!

So, if you ever notice a wacko in a Seat Ibiza with a license plate frame with <a href> code driving in front of you on a Dutch highway, that’s probably me. Or it’s one of those scrapers.

And that’s why they link to the Youtube CNN/ Republicans Debate page on the Google front page…

Google just updated their toolbar PageRank score for the third time in three weeks. The score you’re seeing in the toolbar at this moment has probably been exported on the 2nd of October, somewhere between 3.45pm and 8.55pm.

As of today, Wiep.net is a PageRank 3, which sucks in my opinion. I really liked that big fat zero!

Ah, well, I think it’s kind of flattering to receive the same score as YouTube…

Messages like “Problem Loading Page” suck. Especially when it’s your website returning that message. Like, for an entire day or so.

When I made the choice for cheap in stead of reliable, I could expect going down within 9 seconds after hitting the Digg frontpage, but almost 24 hours downtime because of “file maintenance” without even sending a notification?!?

Thank god I’ll be moving soon…

Update: Crap, apparently, my email failed to work for the past 24 hours as well. If you received an error in an attempt to contact me, please try again. Sorry for the inconvenience…