Connecting People for Fun and Profit with Minimal Effort
* In my last post I focused on influencers, who they are and how they get there. At the end I concluded that most of us are not natural born influencers. Not everybody can become a president. That’s perfectly OK,…
Idiotically Simple Ways to Make Your Crap Content Stand Out
* Whether you like it or not content is the current big thing at least when it comes to buzz. SEO is dead they shout, social media has no ROI they whine but great content is the emperor in the…
How to Remove utm_source & Other Parameters From Your URLs
These days it’s a quite common and very annoying habit by a few services to attach utm_source and other parameters to your internet address aka URL. It’s not only that. Basically anybody can add anything as an parameter to your…
How to Get Links on SEO 2.0 and Other Blogs
Image: Node by Uqbar. As both business blogger and SEO am I aware of both sides of “link building”. I get lots of spammy comments from Asian “blog commenting services” but I also appreciate blog comments by fellow SEO practicioners,…
Why People Hate Ads and Love SEO
Love by jimscottIMD. 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…
Image SEO for Photographers and Other Visual Artists
Photographing the Photographer by Naixn. 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…
hkcMjRm: How to Use Google as URL Shortener
Google short URL: hkcMjRm. Update December, 15th 2009: Try it with http://l.gog.is/hkcMjRm. Moreover Google has launched it’s own official Google URL shortener yesterday: goo.gl Thanks Brandon Diaz for the heads up in the comments. Sadly goo.gl is only available to…
12 Effects Google Personal Search Will Have on SEO, Blogging, Social Media and the Web as Whole
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. So most people won’t opt out or even…
Google Indexes Twitter Links
How to get Indexed by Google in 2009? 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. Of course Google can’t ignore Twitter,…
Bing FAIL
Bing FAIL: This will be a short post, like the headline already suggests. You know, after the disastrous performance of Wolfram Alpha which was falsely hailed as Google competition I’m not really in the mood to rant again. I will…
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 practices…
7 Effective Moving Content to a New Domain Manuals
CC: Your Move by Durotriges. A buddy of mine, styletime, Twitter power user and one of the brightest new bloggers asked what else he should you look after when moving content to a new domain or blog beyond using an…
Why Image Optimization is Important for Blogs
Today, instead of explaining why image optimization is important for blogs I will simply demonstrate it. These are the top 12 search referers this month on SEO 2.0: Search Term Source (Google) alone image search fake image search fakes image…
SEO 2.0 Reality Check: What’s True What Not?
CC: Reality Check by ScubaBear68. After 1.5 years of writing for this blog and popularizing SEO 2.0 it’s time to review some of my theories and predictions. I have promised you a new era. Did it really arrive? Did SEO…
Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration
Social bookmarking, it’s what Delicious does (Digg is social news in contrast, while StumbleUpon is social browsing), is one of the best working things when it comes to the wisdom of crowds. While on Digg the ignorance of interest groups…
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
May I… Creative Commons image by ~FreeBirD®~. 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…
Meta-Social Media Services Compared
CC: meta mini moo by darkmatter. While taking a look at this list of social search engines compiled at the TopRank Online Marketing Blog it dawned on me: It’s about meta-social media. I’ve been encountering tools that fit the description…
The 10 Simplest Website Tweaks for Designers to Get More Clients
Ignore this by Reeuwijk. The main message of many designers’ websites. Are you a graphic, industrial or web designer? Do you want your website to look good? Do you ignore, hate or forget SEO and usability? Well, I can help….
Quick Guide to StumbleUpon Categorization and Tagging
CC: Stumbling into happiness by szea. One of the most annoying issues on StumbleUpon, both from an user and a webmaster perspective is the bizarre categorization system. SU mixes tags and categories in a way nobody really grasps. You can…
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