I live in the Blogosphere
I don’t live in a house, town, province, or country anymore. I live in the blogosphere. I don’t belong to an ethnic group, profession, religion, orientation, political affiliation, interest group, or educational background. I’m a citizen of the blogosphere. I…
Blogging for World Domination
Do you remember the early James Bond movies? There was always a bad guy mastermind in them. The one with the white cat? Blofeld was his name. Blofeld always aimed for global hegemony. Do you want to become a popular…
Quality Traffic? Treat Your Readers Like Human Beings
Orwellian Newspeak is everywhere nowadays. We speak about “collateral damage” “ethnic cleansing” “human resources” In search marketing we have also terms like these. You probably use them all the time! Are You Low or High Quality? Quality traffic is an…
How to Double Your Subscribers While Blogging Half as Often
Dear Readers! Are you still with me? Then say “Yeah!”. I can’t hear ya! Say “Yeaaah!!!”. All the ladies say “Heeeey!”. All the gents say “Ho, ho!” Why? I’m sick and tired! Not of blogging particularly. Or rather I’m sick…
15 Ways of Disagreeing with Style
“I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends” – Dalai Lama. Quite often I am subject to or part of heated debates online. Why? My social SEO ideas are often perceived as radical in business circles. On the…
10 Misconceptions Why SEO is Better than SMO Refuted
Some bloggers argue that conventional SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is better than SMO (Social Media Optimization) for average small businesses. What’s the difference between search engine and social media optimization? As I do not advocate a pure either or…
After Blogging Success: New Frontiers
Success as most people define it (popularity) has one disadvantage: once it’s there, you take it for granted and get bored! With search, social media and blogging success becomes routine Then you start to look for a new frontier. Especially…
Steampunk vs Modern SEO – Competition vs Cooperation
Steampunk is a popular trend among what we call retro future, or future of the past. It’s very popular among the DIY crowd. Steampunk makes modern appliances look like they have been built in the 19. century or the Victorian…
With Blogging, Size Matters – If You Want Traffic
If your blog isn’t getting as many visitors as you’d like, you need a quick lesson in how people read on the Web – they don’t, they scan. With millions of posts to choose from, people are looking for the…
101 Blog Posting Ideas
This is my post #101 on SEO 2.0. When I started this blog, I had almost no clue what to write about, just some vague ideas. In fact I thought that SEO is such a boring topic and this niche…
Do Not Read This Reverse Psychology Primer for Bloggers!
What the heck is reverse psychology? It’s getting someone to do what you want by asking for the opposite! It can be a neat trick, if done well. You’re reading, right? So how can bloggers employ reverse psychology? Examples of…
How I Increased my Traffic by 11259.7% in 3 Months in 10 Easy Steps
I was just playing around with Web analytics tools and happened to click on my Compete.com stats. There I realized that my traffic increased by 11259.7% (no mistake here) compared to a year earlier. In fact I did not believe…
The Best Green Blogs for a Better Future
* Do you want to live in a future where this planet is still habitable? Yes, me too! How can we get there? Some people are writing about it all the time. Who are they? Bloggers! These are the best…
Blogging Inspiration: How to Embrace Creativity!
Many bloggers write about the so called “bloggers block”. It happens when a blogger just doesn’t know what to write or lacks the motivation to do it. Do you lack blogging inspiration? Truly creative people do not experience bloggers block…
Blogging Advice: How to Tell Google that You Blog
Google and its bots are stupid. They are not C3PO or R2D2 from Star Wars! They’re morons! Saying it in less offensive words: Google is disabled. It’s the proverbial Blind Five Year Old. Despite all the hyped “artificial intelligence” Google…
100+ Feed Subscribers in 10 Weeks! How to Count Them?
The SEO 2.0 blog reached 100 feed subscribers after roughly just ten weeks of existence. At least 100. How do you count them? Unless you have a newsletter or “list” and they subscribe by mail it’s hard to find out….
Hail the Returning Visitors and Subscribers!
A few months after launching this blog the biggest single visitor number of SEO 2.0 was not a social site, Google or any other referrer. My main traffic source became the “direct traffic” crowd as web analytics tools call it….
Cyber-Bullying: How to Fool the Angry Mob
Have you been dealing with cyber-bullying? I have had my fair share of fights online already. Why? After all I’m white male Christian and privileged. It’s my line of work. Search engine optimizers are the new Jews or “Negroes”. People…
Must Read SEO Blogs You Might Have Missed
OK, I admit it! I read more than a few SEO blogs. There are at least several more blogs out there in the SEO 2 realm that are really worth a read. They don’t just deal with classic SEO for…
DIY SEO Resources: Use Them to Optimize Your Site Yourself
Some of you might have noticed: SEO 2.0 has has no visible ads. As I did not want to serve you spammy crap like Adsense I decided to use a minimalist no bullshit approach – I only recommend resources or…
