10 Christmas No-Nos for SEO Specialists to Avoid at all Costs

10 Christmas No-Nos for SEO Specialists to Avoid at all Costs

It’s this risky season again and many of us who optimize websites for search will have to endure humiliations we have to face each year. To lessen the impact of the Christmas SEO woes I compiled a list of 10…

7 Autopilot Link Building Techniques

7 Autopilot Link Building Techniques

The most important thing in SEO 2.0 is to stop “link building” and to start “getting links” or “earning links”. Link building will always be artificial to some extent whereas when you get links from people who link you voluntarily…

The 10 Simplest Website Tweaks for Designers to Get More Clients

The 10 Simplest Website Tweaks for Designers to Get More Clients

Are you a graphic, industrial or web designer? Do you want your website to look good? Do you ignore, dismiss or forget findability and usability? Well, I can help. Designers often do not implement the simplest website tweaks for more…

7 Rules of Ethical SEO to Respect

7 Rules of Ethical SEO to Respect

* Do you practice SEO? You probably do! Maybe without knowing. Every time you publish something on social media or your website you do SEO! You probably consider headlines and keywords and want to get noticed or found. This is…

Social Search: Power to the People! Great News for SEO 2.0

Social Search: Power to the People! Great News for SEO 2.0

[Update: Google’ SearchWiki has been discontinued. Some features have been later adopted for new services like Google+] Above you see the Google results for SEO I wanted to see when Google introduced social search features called SearchWiki, but Google didn’t…

Web Success Without SEO Works: How I Entered the Top 10 for SEO Blog

Web Success Without SEO Works: How I Entered the Top 10 for SEO Blog

When I started this blog – SEO 2.0 – I proclaimed that SEO is dead and that you don’t need it anymore to succeed on the Web. Moreover I proclaimed a new kind of SEO, SEO 2.0 which works almost…

Quick Guide to Social Media and WordPress Categories vs Tags

Quick Guide to Social Media and WordPress Categories vs Tags

* One of the most annoying issues on social media, both from a user and a webmaster perspective is the often faulty categorization by users. Many people mix topics and categories in a way nobody really can appreciate. Why does…

Is Commenting on Dofollow-Blogs a Link Building Strategy?

Is Commenting on Dofollow-Blogs a Link Building Strategy?

* This post is about commenting on so called “dofollow-blogs”. Does commenting as a link building strategy make sense? Spoiler alert: it doesn’t in most cases. Yet it can. Let me explain why! The Bad Habit of SEO Worst Practices…

7 Blogging Lessons from Barack Obama

7 Blogging Lessons from Barack Obama

Obama has taught me a few very important things: lessons from Barack Obama and how they relate to my area of expertise blogging, social media + search

7 SEO 2 Techniques Obama Used to Score on the Web

7 SEO 2 Techniques Obama Used to Score on the Web

What is SEO 2? It’s not just about getting found via search engines! It is a term that encompasses modern techniques of making a message heard online. It’s also using any feasible way of reaching an audience by use of…

What Social Media Benefits for Business Can You Expect?

What Social Media Benefits for Business Can You Expect?

Some misguided business people and even marketers dismiss social media saying things like “social media traffic is low value”. Dismissing social media traffic value is like saying that planes suck because you can’t drive them. It’s not just about the…

The Best Ways To Lower Your Bounce Rate [CRO]

The Best Ways To Lower Your Bounce Rate [CRO]

* Every website or blog has a purpose! It can be it a sale, a subscription or simply conveying the message. Achieving this goal is called conversion. The process of doing it is the discipline of Conversion (Rate) Optimization or…

The Most Important Thing on Social Media: Do Not Pose as, Be a Legit User

The Most Important Thing on Social Media: Do Not Pose as, Be a Legit User

* Can it be that gaming social media sites is really the way to go? You can find such a suggestion all over the place even today. It seems ethics is contrary to marketing.   Legit blogs, bad advice Many…

Niche Social News Sites for Business People and Internet Pros

Niche Social News Sites for Business People and Internet Pros

While old school “one size fits all” social sites like Facebook lose more and more ground, great niche social news sites thrive in many industries. Here are niche social news sites business people and Internet pros should be aware of….

Successful Blog Business Model Examples

What is a business model? It’s the way you actually make money. For blogging it’s sometimes tricky. Why? Blogs usually do not earn revenue by themselves. You have to do something else to get paid for blogging. Flagship blogs, that…

The Most Successful SEO Bashings in Web History

One of the best performing linkbait ideas on the Web today is SEO bashing. It’s an ugly but very successful way of gaining links at the expense of others. It seems the less substance an anti-SEO claim has the more…

Organizations that Alleviate Global Hunger to Support

Organizations that Alleviate Global Hunger to Support

* Today I want to raise awareness about poverty. How? Instead of spreading doom and gloom I rather link to those who actually help. I present you a list of organizations that alleviate global hunger you should support to them…

Spiritual Link Building Advice by Zen Master Seo-ing Singsun

Tonight I dreamt of Zen Master Seo-ing Singsun again. Last time I had attempted to make an interview but the outcome of my dream was difficult to understand. Zen spirituality is not easy to grasp at all and trapped inside…

SEO for Humans is Not About Google and “Content is King”

SEO for Humans is Not About Google and “Content is King”

Spider, really your preferred audience? * For years Google has been preaching building websites for humans not spiders. Nonetheless in reality Google still relies on website owners to make their pages spider-friendly. To be honest I don’t like big Google…

7 Ways Self Promotion Hurts Yourself on Social Media

7 Ways Self Promotion Hurts Yourself on Social Media

* Many website owners and marketers still make that stupid mistake! They assume that self promotion is the best way to gain links and exposure on social media. You just dump your content on a social site and “done”. Most…