Great Niche Social News Sites for Bloggers and Internet Entrepreneurs
Niche social news sites are one of the most important pillars of an SEO 2.0 strategy. Only by taking part in niche communities you are able to deeply connect with your peers who then support you elsewhere on the Web….
Interview with Business Blogger Steven Snell on His Recent 50k Blog Sale
Steven Snell is a professional blogger who also runs a design business. He is the man behind Vandelay Design, DesignM.ag and Traffikd. Especially his two flagship design blogs have been very succesful in the past both by the sheer numbers…
Hey Freelancer: Are You a Worker or an Entrepreneur?
Construction Worker by Saad Akhtar Recently it dawned on me what the biggest roadblock to my financial success is. I started my freelance career as a worker and I’ve remained one ever since. I sensed it in the past as…
Attention! SEO 2.0 Was Spreading Malware Yesterday
Hello Dear SEO 2.0 Readers! Unfortunately the SEO 2.0 blog has been compromised yesterday along with other sites on my server. The purpose of the attack was to spread malware. In case you have visited the SEO 2.0 blog or…
The Best Way to Convert Visitors to Supporters is to Forge a Bond
Friendship by sarniebill1 In modern SEO we often encounter the term conversion (rate) optimization. It means making visitors of your site your clients or customers in most cases. A conversion can also mean to make someone convert from a casual…
The Simple Guide to Freelance SEO the Succesful Way
* Patrick Altoft of Blogstorm recently wrote a piece about succeeding as an SEO freelancer. While I like Patrick very much, I even got my writing job at SEOptimise with his help, I partly do not agree with his advice….
7 Business & Blogging Clues a Puppy Can Teach You
Border Collie puppy Tess by hoyasmeg. As noted before, in 2009 I didn’t spend as much time with my business of blogging as usually because I had to take care of a puppy. The funny thing is in German (remember,…
Blog vs Dog 0:1
My dog by armaggesin. You might have wondered why SEO 2.0 has been so silent over 2009. I’ve promised much but couldn’t make it all happen. That’s life. I got a puppy in early 2009 and that has changed my…
hkcMjRm: How to Use Google as URL Shortener
Google short URL: hkcMjRm. Update December, 15th 2009: Try it with http://l.gog.is/hkcMjRm. Moreover Google has launched it’s own official Google URL shortener yesterday: goo.gl Thanks Brandon Diaz for the heads up in the comments. Sadly goo.gl is only available to…
10 New Google Personal Search Blogging, Social Media & SEO Tactics
Image: Trust by notsogoodphotography The new by default personalized search by Google is a big paradigm shift in SEO. Yesterday I wrote about the changes personal search will bring for blogging, social media, SEO etc. I prefer to call it…
12 Effects Google Personal Search Will Have on SEO, Blogging, Social Media and the Web as Whole
Image: Personal Preference by Kevin Dooley. Google gets personal: Now everybody will get personalized search results based on their search habits in the past unless they opt out in a tedious process. So most people won’t opt out or even…
Interview with SEO Rockstar & Personal Development Guru Glen Allsopp
Image: Rockstar by N1NJ4. As a regular SEO 2.0 blog reader you probably know who Glen Allsopp is. I have linked his blog postings quite often in the past and he even blogsitted SEO 2.0 once a year ago while…
10 Blogging Mistakes Most Bloggers Make
Executed by mistake is a Creative Commons image by the moog. Sometimes it takes years of blogging to notice your most obvious mistakes. I’ve been blogging for several years privately, then a few professionally and still do on several business…
101 Tweets on How to Use Twitter
* How to Twitter? A question asked by millions of clueless but eager to learn new Twitter users. First off: It’s either “how to tweet?” or “how to use Twitter?” The rest isn’t that simple. Twitter seems to be simple…
Freemium for Blogs
While contemplating business models for my blog one idea has been the nowadays common freemium model. Freemium means a basic free product and additional premium services. It’s very popular with software. What does freemium for blogs mean though? What premium…
SEO 2.0 Services 3.5$/h
I’m furious! That’s surprising as it’s difficult to annoy me these days. I turned 35 this year and I’m a web professional for 10 years now so many things don’t bother me anymore. Still there are things that get me…
Platform Independent SEO & SEO 2.0
Platform independence is a term known from programming. In practice platform independent programming means that a piece of software does not depend on a certain browser, plug in or operating system. For instance the best RSS readers work on all…
Blog Commenting for SEO and Exposure: More Than Dofollow Links
Intentionally a little over exposed by bionicteaching is a Creative Commons image. In recent weeks I’ve been blogging less than usual so that in the meantime I got fewer visitors and also fewer comments. In times like these I get…
The Dirty Dozen of Funny SEO Techniques for Lazy Bums
Most traditional SEO techniques are boring. Even worse: SEO is actual work in most cases. I’m lazy like hell. I wish I had a 4 hour work week or something. Other people automate everything but I suck at programming. Or…
SEO 2.0 Changes in 2009
Hello dear Readers, I have the pleasure to announce some minor as well as potentially major changes for both the SEO 2.0 blog and SEO 2.0 as a movement as well. Let’s start with the tiny ones: You may have…
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