What is SEO 2.0? Add Your Definition Now!

Soon I will truly redefine SEO. Not just upgrade to version 2.0, I will redefine SEO as a whole! Thus I want to know how well my propaganda and brain washing techniques have worked until now. I want you to…

SEO 2 Best Practices: Finding Images/Choosing Free Photos

SEO 2 Best Practices: Finding Images/Choosing Free Photos

Back when I just started the SEO 2 blog I used images only as a nice to have addition. Why? I wrote and published a lot while there weren’t many free (to use) photos back then. Nowadays you always need…

The 7 Pillars of SEO 2: All You Can E-E-A-T [sic!] to Become POPULAR

The 7 Pillars of SEO 2: All You Can E-E-A-T [sic!] to Become POPULAR

It’s 2024 and Google attempts to fend off the AI crap invasion using its E-E-A-T principles. Will it be enough to become popular? I don’t think so. In order to succeed in a social media driven online environment have to…

10 Reasons to Use Social Media

10 Reasons to Use Social Media

Have you ever wondered why you are spending hours daily on the Internet without really working? Some people assume that you are wasting your time when looking at cute cat images on Facebook. Here are 10 reasons to use social…

PageRank Superstition: 200+ Signals Are Not One Google Juice

PageRank Superstition: 200+ Signals Are Not One Google Juice

* There is no hidden Google juice that miraculously determines the ranking in Google’s results like some people still claim. It’s not 1998 anymore.   PageRank vs 200 ranking signals One day Google disclosed that about 200+ so called “signals”…

Top 10 Social Media Sites in 2021

Top 10 Social Media Sites in 2021

It is hard to keep track of the trends in social media. Where do people socialize online in 2021? Some empires crumble (like MySpace). Others grow to prominence seemingly out of nowhere and disappear again (like Google+). Thus I decided…

20 Ways to Survive as a Freelancer

20 Ways to Survive as a Freelancer

I work a as freelancer for many years now. I am a blogger, social media manager, search engine optimizer among many other roles. I survived! How did I do it? It is difficult at times to freelance, but I pay…

Towards a New Defintion of SEO

Towards a New Defintion of SEO

* I promised you a redefinition of SEO when I started this blog. In fact it’s still in the name of it. Where is it you might ask. Until now I delivered only an upgrade, a new version of SEO….

Social Media Best Practices: How to Serve Audience Interests

Social Media Best Practices: How to Serve Audience Interests

* This is part of a little series of posts about blogs, social media and search best practices. The article deals with “topical categorization” for social media audiences and beyond. In essence the post is not just about categories you…

Enlarge Your PageRank!!!

Enlarge Your PageRank!!!

Click to enlarge! Oh, it doesn’t work? This is not a funny post. One day out of the blue a client of mine wrote me an angry email threatening to end our cooperation. Not any client, a client who has…

Simple Ways to Use Universal Search to Appear on Top of Google

Simple Ways to Use Universal Search to Appear on Top of Google

Back in the days search was about the proverbial “10 blue links” that lead to actual results on third party websites. Not anymore. What happened? Universal Search! In this post I will show you some simple ways to use Universal…

Silly Marketers: SEO is for Kids

Silly Marketers: SEO is for Kids

* Many marketers just don’t get it. Either they are ignorant, silly or worse. Usually I’m not bashing anybody. Yet sometimes a post makes me think that we are still in 2003. As if social media were something completely new…

How I Outranked Matt Cutts for the Term SEO in 7 Easy Steps

How I Outranked Matt Cutts for the Term SEO in 7 Easy Steps

Do you remember Matt Cutts? This famous cat blogger with the basic WordPress theme? He now works for the Pentagon on cyber-warfare. Yes, I know he is only famous because he worked at Google a few years and he could…

Sweetest Fight Ever: Hot Chocolate vs White Sugar

Sweetest Fight Ever: Hot Chocolate vs White Sugar

Do you remember how I defeated Lyndon of Cornwall SEO last time? Now he attempts a comeback on the link baiting scene. No chance man, White Sugar, formerly known as Mad Tad the SEO Destroyer is still the monarch! So…

It’s Magic: Content Creation and Link Building While You’re Away

It’s Magic: Content Creation and Link Building While You’re Away

During the holidays I was offline. Nonetheless my blog gained many new links and several postings have been published while I was on vacation.   Do blogs stay empty on holidays? Now as I am not a company but a…

Why People Read It Again (And Again And Again)

Why People Read It Again (And Again And Again)

On blogs about blogging you will often find lessons on the importance of being original. Most bloggers will tell you that if you want to stand out, you must create original content. Of course this is good advice. Of course…