KoMarketing Associates
KoMarketing is an USA based B2B SEO PPC social media marketing company. I’ve known one of its partners for many years: Derek Edmond. Back in 2007 I’ve discovered that he was one of my first subscribers on this blog. We’ve…
How to Remove utm_source & Other Parameters From Your URLs
Have you noticed some unwanted crap being added to website addresses? Yes, I’m talking about utm_source crap and similar website address pollution! utm_source crap is usually merely annoying and distracting but it can even break websites. Yet most of the…
How to Build Links Like Jaamit
SEO Jaamit Durrani and a cat that looks like Hitler at Think Visibility. This is how funny @jaamit was.* Barely three months before his sudden death Jaamit Durrani had contacted me! Why? He asked me whether I’m interested in the…
Lead or Follow?
One of the most important factors of success is not being satisfied with merely following. When you are just following orders following trends following people instead of being yourself and doing what’s best for you you won’t succeed. It’s not…
The Anatomy of an SEO 2 Web Directory of the Highest Quality
* I have a SEO 2 Web directory right here on my blog. What? A “Web directory”? In 2023? Are you kidding?! No. I’m not. Are you selling paid links here? Not at all either! Hear me out! What Makes…
Do Usability Experts Still Fail Themselves on World Usability Day?
* In 2008 I celebrated my first world usability day by pointing out usability mistakes usability experts commit. Fast forward to 2010 and what did I see? They still failed. Now it’s another 5 years later and finally… they get…
What Does My Bounce Rate Really Mean?
As a modern day website optimizer I deal half of the day with decreasing bounce rates. It means: I try to make people visiting websites stay longer on them or stay at all and click. The bounce rate is a…
Non-Profit SEO Resources
You may not know it but I’ve been working for non-profits even before my career in search engine optimization. Back then there was no such thing as non-profit SEO. SEO for non-profits is by now a popular concept as I…
CSS Tricks for Better SEO
* Are you optimizing websites? Then you probably know it already. It’s often really difficult to build websites for both users and Google. There are even two separate disciplines by now to deal with it: user experience or short UX…
How to Get Links on SEO 2 and Other Blogs
* As both blogger and SEO am I aware of both sides of “link building”. Over the years I got lots of spammy comments from low quality “blog commenting services”. I often had to delete comments right away. I rather…
How Social Networking Has Killed Digg and SEO 1.0
in 2007 I boldly predicted that social browsing services like StumbleUpon are the next big thing! Not only that! I extrapolated that they will kill the popular social news site Digg and SEO 1.0! Did they? No. I was wrong….
How to Find a Tagline for Your Blog or Business Website
OK, you have a website. You have products or services you offer and/or actual content you publish as well. You have a brand name logo call to action in the best case (something like “subscribe now”). What’s missing? A tagline…
Search Engine People
Search Engine People is one of the most important SEO companies in Canada. They publish a widely read search marketing industry blog. I’ve been following the steps of several “search engine people” for a few years by now and I…
Guest Blogging Guidelines
Popular link building techniques get exploited or even abused and thus Google has to react. I’ve seen more and more of such cases with the still hugely popular guest blogging. Thus you have to abide by these guidelines to get…
‘SEO is Dead’ is Dead
Diamond Skull by Damien Hirst.* One fine day I checked Twitter and saw to my dismay that a post titled “How SEO is breaking the web (and killing Google)” [sic!] has garnered almost 200 tweets. While I assume that many of…
Internet Legends You Should Know
You certainly know urban legends already. Stories, misconceptions and myths that sound enticing and thus get spread through gossip all over the place. Urban legends mostly proliferate where people use to meet for small talk, thus “urban”. The Internet is…
Content Optimization: Publish Less – Polish More for Google
2022 was the year that content optimization went mainstream finally. Over the prior decade I haven’t published many new posts on this blog here. Nonetheless I have been spending much time working on it: polishing existing content instead of publishing…
Relentless Technology
Relentless Technology are Internet marketing specialists from Vancouver, Canada. The company offers “Internet marketing that works” including search engine optimization as the foremost service. In their own words: Relentless Technology is an Internet marketing company based in beautiful Vancouver BC….
101 Ways to Make Your Blog More Popular and Successful
* So you started a blog already? Then nothing happened? No wonder! By 2023 there is an awful lot of competition when you publish online! Don’t fret though! I’m here to help with blogs, social media and search! How Can…
Blogging vs Writing
* Is there a difference between blogging and writing? Yes, there is. More than one! What is the main difference between a blogger and a writer then? Read on to find out about it! Are You Just a Blogger or…
