Would You Pay 10$ a Month for an Enhanced SEO 2.0 Subscription?
Blog monetization without alienating your audience is a very difficult task. It’s no secret, you probably already know that I would like to go problogging on my own full time at SEO 2.0 if I could. Right now I earn…
333 RSS Subscriptions or How to Double Your Subscribers While Blogging Half as Often
Dear Readers! If you’re still with me 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 because…
Me & 4 Blogging Experts or Simply Put my Clique
Did you know that as a teenager I had to fight with a gang leader to be able to join his clique? I guess we have watched too many American movies and listened too much to gangster rap but aren’t…
15 Ways of Disagreeing with Style
Recently I was subject to or part of some major disagreements and discussions online. This is partly due to the rapid spread of my SEO 2.0 ideas. People just can’t ignore them anymore. While I am in Internet publishing for…
10 Misconceptions Why SEO is Better than SMO Refuted
Wayne Smallman over at Blah! Blah! Technology has taken great lengths to convince people that conventional SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is better than SMO (Social Media Optimization) for middle sized and small businesses. As I do not advocate a pure…
After Blogging Success: 5 New Frontiers
Success has one disadvantage: Once it’s there, you take it for granted and get bored! With social media and blogging once you get stumbled daily even if you do not write something you deem worthy being stumbled once you get…
Steampunk SEO vs Social Media, Competition vs Cooperation
Steampunk is a popular trend among what we call retro future, or future of the past. Steampunk makes modern appliances look like they have been built in the 19. century or the Victorian age. It looks great and thus people…
Hey You! Your Blog Has Been Hacked!
Yes, your blog! I am talking to you. At least if you found me via Technorati or other vanity search methods. This blog post here explains one way how you can find out whether your blog has been compromised and…
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. Especially I thought that SEO is such a boring topic and this niche so…
Do Not Read This
Reverse psychology, or getting another person to do what you want by asking for the opposite, can be a neat trick, if done well. You’re reading, right? In 1975, Freddie Mercury wrote and recorded Bohemian Rhapsody, a song that ran…
Blog Clean Up, PageRank Lottery, New Focus
Hello Readers, There are some changes on SEO 2.0 to announce: Blog clean up PageRank lottery New focus On Saturdays there always was clean up day in my family when I was a kid. So I cleaned up my blog…
3 Way Link Exchange with SEO Spammers Is a Dead End
Dear Webmaster, I would like to express my interest in 3 Way Link Exchange with your website for our mutual benefit. Your website link will be placed on linkfarm.com or SEO-spam-directory.com I will add your link here: uselessguide.com/Internet_and_Web_Services/Search_Engine_Optimization/ OR blahblah.com/directory/Search_Engine_Optimisation_2/…
How I Increased my Traffic by 11259.7% in 3 Months in 10 Easy Steps
I was just playing around with popuri.us 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 ago. In fact I did not believe the stats…
5 More Design + Usability + SEO Articles: The Clean Dozen
Some of you might have already noticed: A guest post of mine called 7 Must Read Design + Usability + SEO Articles was published at the Small Business Hub blog. As the target audience over there are not the hard…
The Best 10 Green Blogs
For Blog Action Day I chose not to bore you with my uninformed musings on a green topic. I am not a environmental activist or green blogger myself so I rather tell you where to go to read what’s going…
Bloggers Block? How about Inspiration Overflow!
Many bloggers write about the so called bloggers block. It’s a situation where a blogger just does not know what to write or lacks the motivation to do so. I have a different problem most of the time, it’s the…
Blogging Advice: How to Tell Google that You’re a Blog
Google is stupid. It’s not R2D2 or Data, it’s a moron. That’s why SEO is often such a tedious task. Unlike many uneducated people who assume that Google is God and it knows everything, I know it does not. Google…
100+ RSS Subscribers! Or How to Count Them
SEO 2.0 has 100 RSS subscribers! After roughly ten weeks of blogging. At least 100. AFAIK. 91 at Google and 9 and Bloglines. So if you subscribe using any other service (I use Netvibes for instance) say “yeah!” Come on!…
Hail the Returning Visitors and Subscribers!
Today, for the first time in several weeks, the biggest single visitor number of SEO 2.0 was not StumbleUpon or any other referrer, it was the “No referring link” crowd as Statcounter calls it. It was rather a small group…
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