Think Relationships not Technology
* After Matt Cutts’ disclosure that PageRank sculpting support has been discontinued many SEO practitioners struggle with the issue of links in comments or from User Generated Content (UGC) in general draining their PageRank again. Matt Cutts says that good…
7 Simple Blogging Inspiration Techniques
Roofs and horizons is a Creative Commons licensed image by maistora. Blogging on a daily basis requires a constant research for new topics to cover. In order to search for new material you need to know what to search for…
How to Overcome the Established Blogger’s Apathy
CC: Apathy? by Dan is awesome. In recent weeks this blog grew more and more silent for a number of reasons (vacation, rediscovery of a vintage strategy game from the eighties, puppy) that are not related to the blog itself….
5 Keys to Twitter Headlines
CC: Keys by Stewart Leiwakabessy. Twitter headlines are about short striking descriptive tidbits that get retweeted frequently. Last year we had social media this year we have Twitter. No joke. You don’t do social media optimization anymore. You have to…
7 Simple Image SEO Best Practices that Lead to the Top of Google Image Search
It’s astounding how simple image SEO for blogs really is. I’m ranking so high in Google Image Search with the images that illustrate my posts that I get more traffic via Image Search than the text based Google search inspite…
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Me
CC: Seo2 [Not affiliated with the SEO 2.0 blog] Good bloggers take part in memes. I try to be a good blogger so I’m glad I’m part of a meme again, last few times I was asked I was too…
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 activist. An activist is someone who is actively…
7* Writing for Subscriber Heaven: More of the Same but Better
CC: Stairway to Heaven by Davici. 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…
Why Image Optimization is Important for Blogs
Today, instead of explaining why image optimization is important for blogs I will simply demonstrate it. These are the top 12 search referers this month on SEO 2.0: Search Term Source (Google) alone image search fake image search fakes image…
Top 10 Most Awesomely Amazing Creative & Funny Reasons Why Blogging for Social Media Sucks
CC: Eye am feeling silly by Cayusa. 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 so common place that…
7 Stealth Publish for WordPress Uses to Consider
CC: Stealth by Johnson Camerface. A WordPress plugin that removes posts from the RSS feed is what I’ve been searching for for a while now. I thought it would be an advanced RSS manipulation feature but it’s far simpler than…
12 Social Media Trends You Must Be Aware of
CC: Please use revolving door by Thomas Hawk. 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…
Does Blogging for Money Work or Not? 6 Noob Mistakes
CC: True Fans by Vanderlin. Recently a Newsweek article by the “fake Steve Jobs” [Daniel Lyons] blogger basically denounced blogging for money or in other words depicted problogging as a myth. Well, not really, it said you can’t make “huge…
SEO 2.0 Reality Check: What’s True What Not?
CC: Reality Check by ScubaBear68. After 1.5 years of writing for this blog and popularizing SEO 2.0 it’s time to review some of my theories and predictions. I have promised you a new era. Did it really arrive? Did SEO…
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…
The Only 7 WordPress Plugins Business Bloggers Need
CC: Only only by Thomas Hawk. Serious, professional and business bloggers listen up: Forget all those top 100 WordPress Plugins lists, those top 10 SEO Plugins for WordPress compilations. I blog for 4 blogs now, at 3 of them I’m…
In 2009 SEO 3.0 Arrives!
CC: Cheers 2009! by vv. Hello Everybody in 2009! In 2009 SEO 3.0 arrives! Just joking, SEO 2.0 stays SEO 2.0 – only the year has changed. I’ve been away for a few days and before that I’ve been pretty…
7 Autopilot Link Building Methods for the Lazy Bastard
CC: Pilots by Muffet. The most important thing in SEO 2.0 is to stop “link building” and to start “getting links”. Link building will always be artificial to some extent whereas when you get links from people who link you…
Reader Poll: 13 Upcoming Posts to Choose From
Dear regular readers, once again I have the problem of inspiration overflow. Thus I need your help. I’m working on or having several posts on my mind already, it’s just a case of writing them down or even finishing them….
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 completely different…
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