The FIRE UP Approach: How to Optimize Websites for People

The FIRE UP Approach: How to Optimize Websites for People

How do you optimize websites for people that is actual readers who are suffering from chronic attention shortage? You need to make them findable, intriguing, readable, engaging, usable, popular or in short “fire up“. “fire someone up – Fig. to…

utm_source=crap: How Google Analytics Breaks Links + UX

utm_source=crap: How Google Analytics Breaks Links + UX

* Did you notice how dirty some website addresses are? They are full of crap! Why? Over the years Google – the dominant analytics provider on the market – and marketers have increasingly inserted it! In this post I explain…

SEO Has Evolved – It’s About Popularization Now

SEO Has Evolved – It’s About Popularization Now

* SEO is not the alpha and omega! It has evolved to become more than just search engine optimization. Also it’s not “just marketing”. You can optimize things without selling them on a market. SEO has progressed and advanced in…

Explaining SEO Made Simple

Explaining SEO Made Simple

* Why Explaining SEO Matters What Does SEO Mean? Yes, it’s Search Engine Optimization (originally)! Yet what does that really mean? Fixing websites for Google? Do you still wonder what SEO is about? This article will help you. You already…

Does SEO Make You Sick?

Does SEO Make You Sick?

* A shocking survey has yielded the following results: one in ten Americans considered HTML to be a sexually transmitted disease. This sounds funny, doesn’t it? Now consider one of the other survey questions. It also asked what SEO means….

Simple Ways to Optimize Your Site

Simple Ways to Optimize Your Site

When a year ends and a new year starts we often reconsider what we’ve done last year and plan for the upcoming year. Many people attempt to implement huge changes of their life style or business practices. It’s far better…

SEO is Alive!

SEO is Alive!

When I started out this blog in 2009 years I said what nowadays is almost a running gag: “SEO is dead“. You could assume I am the most unlikely person to tell you that SEO is alive. Take a look…

Connecting People for Fun and Profit with Minimal Effort

Connecting People for Fun and Profit with Minimal Effort

* In the past I already focused on influencers: Who are they? How did they get there? Who cares! At the end I concluded that most of us are not influencers by design. Today I want to focus on what…

Idiotically Simple Ways to Make Your Crap Content Stand Out

Idiotically Simple Ways to Make Your Crap Content Stand Out

Everybody knows you have to create great content to survive so you have to compete with millions of others who are creating and promoting content.

How to Remove utm_source & Other Parameters From Your URLs

How to Remove utm_source & Other Parameters From Your URLs

How to Add Gay Porn to Any Site These days there is a quite common and very annoying habit! Many services attach utm_source and other so called parameters to your Internet address aka URL. It’s not only that. The issue…

How to Get Links on SEO 2 and Other Blogs

How to Get Links on SEO 2 and Other Blogs

* As both blogger and SEO am I aware of both sides of “link building”. Over the years I got lots of spammy comments from low quality “blog commenting services”. I often had to delete comments right away. I rather…

Why People Hate Ads and Love SEO

Why People Hate Ads and Love SEO

* I hate ads. I’m not the only one. Most people hate annoying ads. People hate ads on the Web and block them using a plethora of tools. They also hate outdoor ads and TV ads. They hate them we…

Image SEO for Photographers and Other Visual Artists

Image SEO for Photographers and Other Visual Artists

Photographers and other visual artists have a magnificent tool to show off their work these days, the Internet. Everybody loves great photos and artworks so they spread basically by themselves. Still there is a big difference between being successful on…

12 Effects Google Personalized Search Has on the Web

12 Effects Google Personalized Search Has on the Web

Image: Personal Preference by Kevin Dooley. Google gets personal: Now everybody will get personalized search results based on their search habits in the past unless they opt out in a tedious process. Most people won’t opt out or even notice…

Google Indexes Twitter Links

How to get indexed by Google? Just use Twitter. This is no joke. I ran a test on Twitter to find out whether Google indexes Twitter links and surprise, surprise it does in certain cases. Of course Google can’t ignore…

User and Search Friendly URL Design for Multi-Language Websites in 4 Easy Steps

User and Search Friendly URL Design for Multi-Language Websites in 4 Easy Steps

* What an overwhelming headline! User and search friendly URL design for multi-language websites? What are you talking about? Let me explain. Then I’ll introduce to you the 4 easy steps you need to follow. One of the basic best…

Effective Moving Content to a New Domain Tutorials

Effective Moving Content to a New Domain Tutorials

A buddy of mine asked what else he should you look after when moving content to a new domain or blog beyond using an indispensable 301 redirect. As long as you use a 301 you are already pretty safe when…

Why Image Optimization is Important for Blogs

Why Image Optimization is Important for Blogs

This time, instead of explaining why image optimization is important for blogs I will simply demonstrate it. One day I checked my search traffic from Google. These were the top 12 search referrers for that month on SEO 2.0: Search…

SEO 2.0 Reality Check: What Works?

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…

The Best Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration

The Best Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration

What is image bookmarking and how can it improve your overall creativity? It’s simple. You view amazing images by others and get inspired! Indeed you can use image bookmarking sites like Pinterest for daily inspiration. There is a steady stream…