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….

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…

How to Promote Yourself on Social Media? The Secret of SEO 2

How to Promote Yourself on Social Media? The Secret of SEO 2

* In this post I reveal the secret of SEO 2.0! By 2023 it’s rather known as “social SEO”. At the end of the day social media is about SEO too or SEO 2! It shows how to promote yourself…

Blog Suicide: Top 7 Title & Meta Tag Mistakes that Kill Your Blog

Blog Suicide: Top 7 Title & Meta Tag Mistakes that Kill Your Blog

* I’m shocked! Not only do bloggers waste time with meta tags although most of them are worthless for Google, bloggers hurt themselves using meta tags. It does not get better it seems it gets worse. Some people even commit…

When Wall Street Goes Down SEO Goes Up – How Come?

When Wall Street Goes Down SEO Goes Up – How Come?

Don’t read the papers first thing in the morning! Why that? News usually they ruin your day! Remember when Wall Street broke down and spawned the financial crisis? Banks crumbled and corporate capitalism turned to “state capitalism”! Why? It seemingly…

10 Scariest and Most Annoying Facts about Google Chrome

10 Scariest and Most Annoying Facts about Google Chrome

* When I wrote that Google Chrome is not a good idea the post got popular really fast and got debated a lot ever since. It didn’t help. Chrome became the dominant browser/spyware on the Web. I tested Google Chrome…

Why Google Chrome is a Bad Idea

Why Google Chrome is a Bad Idea

* Are you wondering “why Google is bad”? So do I! Now please choose one of the following: This post deals with the reasons why Google’s Chrome browser is a bad idea. Scroll to read the rest. To find out…

Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? It’s the Full Bottle

Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? It’s the Full Bottle

You certainly know the metaphor with the glass and the liquid. You don’t? Let me recount it: For some people the glass is half full and for others half empty. The trick is that both see the same glass and…

10 Google Operators for Advanced Search to Use Daily

10 Google Operators for Advanced Search to Use Daily

Are you still using Google for search? Yeah, I know. It sucks by now. Yet sometimes you have to. These advanced search operators can help you find what you know must be there. Using them you can unearth the hidden…

Google Suggest Effects on SEO, Search Usage and Business

Google Suggest Effects on SEO, Search Usage and Business

Who the hell is the Gossip Girl? Google Suggest offers users possible search queries based on the number of searches and results. When you start typing your search query Google suggest popular keywords or phrases to search for. Ever since…

How to Write for Subscribers: Rules of Advanced Blogging

Once this blog has reached a critical mass of over 1000+ subscribers it was time to change my writing and content creation strategy. Indeed I already adapted how I blog before I consciously decided to change my approach. Did my…

The Most Annoying Social Media Mistakes

The Most Annoying Social Media Mistakes

Over the years and on many different social media sites I have seen the same mistakes over and over again. Please! At least try not to repeat these…

10 Usability Sins that Make me Bounce at any Rate!

10 Usability Sins that Make me Bounce at any Rate!

Bounce rate is the number or rather percentage of people who leave your site almost instantly after taking a quick look. People do not click or perform any other action on your site when they bounce! Make sure to prevent…

When Yahoo Search Results Turned Sour

When Yahoo Search Results Turned Sour

SEO 2.0 rankings for the keyphrase [SEO 2.0] during summer 2008, a Raven chart. In mid 2008 Yahoo updated their Index to offer “more relevant results” which allegedly were “more like Google“. I was amazed to find out that the…

How (Not) to Pitch Me on Social Media

How (Not) to Pitch Me on Social Media

With more than 100k+ followers on Pinterest, around 500 connections on LinkedIn and 7k+ on Twitter I guess I’m quite popular by now. For many years my social media popularity was largely ignored by most people. I did not receive…