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…
Speed Up Firefox the No Bullshit Way
Over the years I’ve tried numerous ways of speeding up Firefox. Most posts on that topic make you change some hidden preferences and such. I say: That’s bullshit! I’ve never experienced much of an improvement after making some voodoo tweaks….
The Freemium Business Model for Blogs
While contemplating business models for my blog one idea has been the nowadays common freemium approach. Freemium means a basic free entry level product and additional premium features for more advanced users. It’s very popular with software. For example many…
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…
Authority and Trustrank
Yesterday I discovered the original Trustrank paper from 2004. Trustrank is a term coined by some Yahoo engineers to describe a new algorithm to determine relevant search results. The new thing about Trustrank is that it does not solely count…
Reasons to Regulate Google & Search
This article deals with the urgent need to regulate Google and proposes radical open source like transparency as a solution. Do we need to regulate Google? Yes, of course. We really have to regulate Google. The question is just how…
How to Engage on X-Twitter for Marketing Credibly
When I wrote about X/Twitter marketing for the first time it was a huge success! It became the most read by subscribers post on SEO 2 ever. More than 1k regular SEO 2 readers have read it within a week….
When Link Building Think Relationships not Technology
When link building many stingy webmasters only want inbound links. In contrast they don’t link out. They are even afraid that links from User Generated Content (UGC) – like comments – are draining their PageRank. Is your site authority leaking…
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…
How to Find True Social Media Experts?
* How to find true social media experts? It may be harder than you think. Just because some people have millions of followers does not mean they are experts. There are many automated services where you can buy followers for…
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…
8 Blogger Archetypes: Which One Are You?
* There are 8 blogger archetypes. activist connector collector fighter newshound teacher writer inventor Let me explain. The activist When I started blogging back in 2003 I wanted to be an activist. An activist is someone who is actively…
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…
Does Blogging for Money Work or Not? 6 Noob Mistakes
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 amounts money” or “grow rich” by…
Who to Follow on Twitter?
* Twitter is very beneficial for your social SEO! In fact Twitter is more about modern SEO than other social media I hailed during my early years. Yeah, Twitter has surpassed my wildest expectations. Why is Twitter so valuable for…
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…
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…
7 Optimization Techniques I Learned from Playing With my 7 Year Old Daughter
Working on a computer is often frustrating when you have kids. They come over to see you sitting all day at the same place staring into a bright light source and wonder why you sit there. This Sunday though was…
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…
