https://www.seofrancois.com/posts/ Recent content in Posts on SEOfrancois Hugo -- 0.128.0 en-us Sat, 01 Aug 2020 21:39:04 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/retirement/ Sat, 01 Aug 2020 21:38:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/retirement/ I am wondering if I should also retire this domain name & blog... ;) https://www.seofrancois.com/competition-for-new-gtlds/ Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:34:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/competition-for-new-gtlds/ ICANN has revealed the list of applications they have received for the new generic TLDs. It's interesting to look at the extensions for which they have received several competing applications. Those will probably be of high interest in the future… https://www.seofrancois.com/speaking-at-smx-paris-2012/ Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:58:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/speaking-at-smx-paris-2012/ SMX Paris 2012 takes place today & tomorrow. I'll be presenting at 2 sessions: How to get out of Google Penalties - june 7th, 16:30 Affiliation strategies - Search Marketing beyond the 1st click - june 8th 11:30 SMX Paris is one of the two only serious… https://www.seofrancois.com/not-all-about-seo/ Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:46:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/not-all-about-seo/ Sometimes I wonder why I ever chose the "seofrancois" nickname... Oh right, those guys at a conference kept pressing me for a twitter handle! But still, SEO is just a little part of what I'm interested in as far as making money, ahem, I mean as far as… https://www.seofrancois.com/best-steak-in-munich/ Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:06:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/best-steak-in-munich/ This is a utility post for anyone going to a4uexpo and looking for some above average food... especially steak: The best place in town is called "Zum Goldenen Kalb" - Utzschneidertr.1 80469 München. The filet is just as juicy as the best you'd get in… https://www.seofrancois.com/top-domain-sales-in-2010/ Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:12:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/top-domain-sales-in-2010/ Sometimes it's interesting to do a reality check on your own little domain portfolio... Here are the top 10 domain sales in 2010: Sex.com - $13,000,000 Slots.com - $5,500,000 Dating.com - $1,750,000 Photo.com - $1,250,000 Flying.com - $1,100,000… https://www.seofrancois.com/speaking-at-smx-paris/ Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:00:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/speaking-at-smx-paris/ I'm speaking at SMX Paris 2010. I'm actually giving a presentation in 3 different sessions: Architecturer un Site - june 15th, 12:00 Un design web optimisé pour les moteurs de recherche - june 15th, 15:30 Contenu dupliqué et tag "canonical" - june 16th… https://www.seofrancois.com/speaking-a4u-expo-europe-munich/ Tue, 04 May 2010 02:09:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/speaking-a4u-expo-europe-munich/ I'll be speaking at A4U expo in Munich (May 18-19th, 2010). I'll be on the super affiliate panel on Day 2 about "Tips to Increase Productivity & Profit". Pretty exciting! I guess I'll leave the tech tips to the other panelists and focus on some hugely… https://www.seofrancois.com/delayed-gratification-secret-to-success/ Tue, 04 May 2010 01:37:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/delayed-gratification-secret-to-success/ There has been this awesome study in the late sixties about how 4 year olds would resist temptation and delay gratification. What's really awesome about it is that the researchers later found out there was a correlation between their ability to delay… https://www.seofrancois.com/gary-swart-odesk-interview/ Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:04:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/gary-swart-odesk-interview/ If you saw my presentation at SES or CAC about outsourcing on oDesk, you may also be interested in this interview of the CEO of oDesk. At the very least it should give you an idea of how strong that whole trend is developing... https://www.seofrancois.com/cac-amsterdam-2010-day-2/ Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:00:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/cac-amsterdam-2010-day-2/ Day 2 of CAC started way too early for my taste as I had my presentation scheduled at 9 a.m. Not to mention it's equally hard to get attendees out of bed in the morning hours after the first night of partying... but we finally joined forces with Peter… https://www.seofrancois.com/cac-amsterdam-2010-day-1/ Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:45:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/cac-amsterdam-2010-day-1/ Last time I was in Amsterdam - for A4U + AAC last year - it was Queen's Day. There was A LOT going on! People and colros everywhere... This year, we're one week early for Queen's day apparently... it you can really feel the difference! The streets feel… https://www.seofrancois.com/think-twice-before-you-retweet-yourself/ Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:15:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/think-twice-before-you-retweet-yourself/ If you have multiple Twitter accounts and/or Facebook fan pages, you have probably cross-posted content or retweeted yourself more than once already... That may be fine but at some level you also  run the risk of annoy your followers with too many… https://www.seofrancois.com/outsourcing-platforms/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:03:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/outsourcing-platforms/ Links to major platforms: 99designs * Amazon mechanical turk * Elance * Freelancer * Guru * LimeExchange * oDesk (my personal favorite) * PeoplePerHour * RentACoder... https://www.seofrancois.com/speaking-at-ses-london-in-february/ Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:18:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/speaking-at-ses-london-in-february/ I will be speaking at SES London next month about one of my favorite topics recently: Offshore Outsourcing. In the last 6 months I've been interviewing more than 300 providers in different developing countries and hired about 50 of them. I believe I've… https://www.seofrancois.com/french-seo/ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:19:00 +0000 https://www.seofrancois.com/french-seo/ Okay, so I am basically French, I have a French passport, I live In France, I vote in France, sometimes I even blog in French... and therefore, I believe I'm entitled to political immunity for the terrible things I'm about to say:   France sucks! (at…