Working in Berlin, Germany as a SEO Consultant.
SEO Test: Default Personalized Search is a Myth – It Doesn’t Work
During the recent three weeks I have performed a very simple SEO test to determine the influence of the newly introduced personalized search feature by Google. This one allegedly works with cookies ...
SEO for Parents: What Does Daddy Do?
Dad and Baby by PedroCancion Last time I wrote about SEO and parenting I stressed that you need to be proud of what ...
12 Reasons Why StumbleUpon is Dead
Dead End is a Creative Commons image by Benny Lin StumbleUpon is dead. Read my story first and then the 12 reasons. It was long ago, probably a year or more, ...
Google Indexes Twitter Links
How to get Indexed by Google in 2009? Just use Twitter. This is no joke. I ran a test on Twitter to find out whether Google indexes Twitter links and surprise, surprise ...
Top 9 Social News Mashup Sites
[Refresh Monday:] The post "top 10 social news mashup sites" has been quite popular on Twitter over the weekend so I decided to update it after almost 2 years. Several sites mentioned ...
12-8 Reasons to Join Mixx and Abandon Digg
Refresh Monday: This post was originally published on Nov 29, 2007. It was revised on April 28, 2009. Remember my post 10 Reasons Not to ...
The Best 12 Free RSS Readers for Windows, Mac and Linux
News hub. Creative Commons license by Lorrie McClanahan. [Refresh Monday: Update 20, April 2009] Today, on my first Refresh Monday I focus again on the best free RSS ...
8 Blogger Archetypes: What Kind of Blogger Are You?
CC: Images by levork. There are 8 blogger archetypes. activist connector collector fighter newshound teacher writer inventor Let me explain. When I started blogging back in 2003 I wanted to be an ...
The 10 Worst Findability Crimes Committed by Web Designers & Developers
Crime scene by Cati Kaoe. Web designers & developers often focus on web standards,
TinyURL down? 10 Short URL Services that Are More Advanced Alternatives
My friends on Twitter report that TinyURL is or was down. What to do when TinyURL is down if you need short URLs (concise Internet/web addresses or URL ...
Top 10 URL Design Failures of Famous Websites
Famous painting, image by caribb, but no clue in the URL: http://flickr.com/photos/caribb/2355878576/ Do you know what the New York Times, the World Bank, Wordpress.com, PHP.net and others have in common? ...
Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes
Address by sam.d URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your Internet address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there ...
Confidential: 22 Google Laws Leaked
A source within Google has leaked this list of 22 Google laws. These confidential laws are not meant to be known by the public so make sure to spread the news before ...
Top 10 Benefits of Speaking at Search Engine Conferences
On Tuesday instead of working I went to SES Hamburg (a leading search engine conference, sidenote for the uninitiated) for some fun. I showed off my great Panama hat (Yes, I tricked ...
How to Spot Content Theft on Social Media and Elsewhere
Content theft runs rampant on social media. StumbleUpon and Mixx are heavily targeted by sites which capitalize on stolen content. They use images and sometimes also text with ...
SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) Demand Skyrockets
SEM Lymphozyte. Source.Google Trends is a wonderful tool to find out what the market really demands. I compared SEM to SEO demand to find out that the Scanning ...
Top 3 Web Tools to Find Out How a Blog Performs Over Time
The Passage of Time by ToniVC. While SEO 2.0 always offers top 7, 10 or more lists, this list here is just a top 3 as for the task of ...
Are You SEO 2.0 Enough to Join Our Mixx Group?
Sadly I had to reject more and more potential SEO 2.0 group members over at Mixx. People apply for membership to our group with no or even ...
Bloggers: To Get Attention Go Where the Attention is
While blogging I often made the mistake of trying to raise hell or be spectacular to get attention from readers. You really have to be amazing, outstanding and hell of a useful ...