Ignore SEO 2.0 Jobs for 3.5$/h
Job adverts make me furious! That’s surprising as it’s difficult to annoy me these days. I’m over 40 now and not as easily infuriated anymore thanks to Zen meditation among others. Also I’m a Web professional for 20+ years now…
SEO 2.0 Definitions: It’s about People, Self-Spreading and Being Reputable
SEO 2.0 doesn’t exist and I’m glad it doesn’t! OK, SEO 2.0 doesn’t exist according to Wikipedia. It existed – someone wrote an excellent article about it – but the Wikipedia censors deleted it. I’m glad. I prefer to spread…
Outbound Links and SEO: Linking Out is a Ranking Factor and Benefits Your Site
* Do outbound links (also called outgoing links) matter for SEO (as in Search Engine Optimization)? Does Google count outbound links to determine your ranking on search? These are common questions publishers ask themselves. Finally Matt Cutts of Google has…
Inspiring Positivity in the SEO Industry
One of the greatest things about the international blogosphere is its self improvement and personal development part. You have lots of outstanding positivity spirituality productivity blogs out there. You don’t have them in German to such an extent. There are…
Search: 8 Reasons Why Wolfram Alpha is a Waste of Time and no Threat to Google
Wolfram Alpha is another overhyped “Google killer” on the block. It’s allegedly a search engine. Google killers usually die Do you remember the last few much hyped Google killers in the search arena? Not? Well, I do. Wikia has been…
The Best SEO Strategy: Don’t Do SEO!
Unless you’re here for the first time you know that I’ve often written about SEO without SEO. What I meant was a new approach to search which basically goes beyond it or rather is organic. You simply build the best…
Blogger’s Block? How to Overcome Blogging Apathy
Do you experience so-called “blogger’s block”? Are you unable to write for some reason? I can help! Over the years my blog became repeatedly silent for a number of reasons – a rare vacation trip rediscovery of a vintage strategy…
Top 10 Most Insane Reasons Why Blogging for Social Media Sucks
* 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 common place. Sometimes it seems there is not a single…
SEO 2.0 Reality Check: What Works?
* I’ve been writing for this blog and popularizing SEO 2.0 for 15 years! Yes. It’s time to review some of my theories and predictions. I have promised you a new era. Did it really arrive? Did SEO 2.0 turn…
10 Christmas No-Nos for SEO Specialists to Avoid at all Costs
It’s this risky season again and many of us who optimize websites for search will have to endure humiliations we have to face each year. To lessen the impact of the Christmas SEO woes I compiled a list of 10…
Is Commenting on Dofollow-Blogs a Link Building Strategy?
* This post is about commenting on so called “dofollow-blogs”. Does commenting as a link building strategy make sense? Spoiler alert: it doesn’t in most cases. Yet it can. Let me explain why! The Bad Habit of SEO Worst Practices…
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…
The Most Successful SEO Bashings in Web History
One of the best performing linkbait ideas on the Web today is SEO bashing. It’s an ugly but very successful way of gaining links at the expense of others. It seems the less substance an anti-SEO claim has the more…
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…
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
* 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…
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…
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
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…
Top 10 URL Design Failures of Famous Websites
Famous painting, image by Fabrizio Verrecchia, but no clue in the URL: https://unsplash.com/photos/bv60QyW78Os Do you know what the websites of the New York Times World Bank WordPress.com PHP.net and others have in common? Their Internet addresses aka URLs suck! Right…
