Inspiring Positivity in the SEO Industry

Inspiring Positivity in the SEO Industry

One of the greatest things about the international blogosphere is its self improvement and personal development part. You have lots of outstanding positivity spirituality productivity blogs out there. You don’t have them in German to such an extent. There are…

How to Find True Social Media Experts?

How to Find True Social Media Experts?

* How to find true social media experts? It may be harder than you think. Just because some people have millions of followers does not mean they are experts. There are many automated services where you can buy followers for…

10 Reasons to Follow Tad of SEO 2 on X-Twitter

10 Reasons to Follow Tad of SEO 2 on X-Twitter

ArchDaily is one of my all-time favorite architecture blogs. They once published a post called “5 reason to follow ArchDaily on Twitter“. Wow. Why didn’t I think myself of it? Yet the post itself seemed clumsy and the reasons were…

User and Search Friendly URL Design for Multi-Language Websites in 4 Easy Steps

User and Search Friendly URL Design for Multi-Language Websites in 4 Easy Steps

* What an overwhelming headline! User and search friendly URL design for multi-language websites? What are you talking about? Let me explain. Then I’ll introduce to you the 4 easy steps you need to follow. One of the basic best…

Search: 8 Reasons Why Wolfram Alpha is a Waste of Time and no Threat to Google

Search: 8 Reasons Why Wolfram Alpha is a Waste of Time and no Threat to Google

Wolfram Alpha is another overhyped “Google killer” on the block. It’s allegedly a search engine. Google killers usually die Do you remember the last few much hyped Google killers in the search arena? Not? Well, I do. Wikia has been…

Blogger’s Block? How to Overcome Blogging Apathy

Blogger’s Block? How to Overcome Blogging Apathy

Do you experience so-called “blogger’s block”? Are you unable to write for some reason? I can help! Over the years my blog became repeatedly silent for a number of reasons – a rare vacation trip rediscovery of a vintage strategy…

7* Writing for Subscriber Heaven: More of the Same but Better

7* Writing for Subscriber Heaven: More of the Same but Better

After realizing once again that I don’t like writing for social media as much as I do right now I focused on ways of writing for subscribers and other regular visitors. In order to fulfill the needs of your regular…

Why Image Optimization is Important for Blogs

Why Image Optimization is Important for Blogs

This time, instead of explaining why image optimization is important for blogs I will simply demonstrate it. One day I checked my search traffic from Google. These were the top 12 search referrers for that month on SEO 2.0: Search…

Top 10 Most Insane Reasons Why Blogging for Social Media Sucks

Top 10 Most Insane Reasons Why Blogging for Social Media Sucks

* OK, I admit it! I’m part of the problem here. It all started with link baiting a few years ago. Then blogging for a social media audience has become common place. Sometimes it seems there is not a single…

Social Media Trends You Must Be Aware of

Social Media Trends You Must Be Aware of

Social media is evolving, revolving and sometimes struggling. It seems there are trends which are there for a while now. Some sites reflecting overall trends lose steam and die while others are born and/or accelerate. Here is a number of…

The Best Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration

The Best Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration

What is image bookmarking and how can it improve your overall creativity? It’s simple. You view amazing images by others and get inspired! Indeed you can use image bookmarking sites like Pinterest for daily inspiration. There is a steady stream…

Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov – When will it come to your Website?

Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov – When will it come to your Website?

Image: Brick Obama by ~emeph Immediately after Barack Obama has been sworn in as the new president of the United States the Whitehouse.gov website has been relaunched. Some of the most important aspects of this change are: It has a…

7 Optimization Techniques I Learned from Playing With my 7 Year Old Daughter

7 Optimization Techniques I Learned from Playing With my 7 Year Old Daughter

Working on a computer is often frustrating when you have kids. They come over to see you sitting all day at the same place staring into a bright light source and wonder why you sit there. This Sunday though was…

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…

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…

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