Where Did All The Search Traffic Go?
* BuzzFeed reports that “Traffic from Google to digital publishers dropped 30% over the past eight months.” based on traffic statistics from over 200 major media properties, among them BuzzFeed Time Huffington Post Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated Overall social media…
Dangerous Links: Why & How Google Wants to Abolish Hypertext
* Are links unnatural or even dangerous like some SEO experts repeat after Google? The Web is built upon so called hypertext. Why is it hyper? It’s not because of all the hypes we witness on the Internet. The hyper-aspect…
How to Kill Pandas and Penguins but NOT People
* This post is not about killing cute animals. In search a Panda and a Penguin are different types of Google updates or rather penalties. In case you own a website or two I will help you deal with those…
When Will Google Sunset Search?
* Last week the number one topic on the Internet was not the new pope it seems, it was the demise of Google Reader. Mostly geeks know what Reader was about and used it so average people probably won’t notice….
Billions of Sites Subject to Manual Penalty by Google
Google recently released an “interactive infographic” titled “how search works”. I ignored it until Barry Schwartz convinced me to take a second look. The infographic starts with the number of “30 trillion individual pages” Google has in its index. Later…
Training in Winter
* Some of you may remember that I have started training parkour some time ago. It made me not only 200% healthier over the recent years (I feel 10 years younger by now) it also inspired me in other areas…
Does Google Authorship Markup Hurt or Help Rankings?
* You may remember that I have mentioned in my post “Google Authorship Markup Disadvantages Everybody Ignores” how my wife’s site has lost rankings almost immediately after I implemented the Google authorship markup on her site. One reader specifically asked…
How I Recovered from Panda by Banning Google
A panda might by a a cute animal but for most people who have a website and get traffic from search or rather mostly from Google it’s worse than a zombie. Websites hit by one of the numerous so called…
25 Shocking Remarks about SEO, Social Media, Facebook & Google to Tell Your Family During the Holiday Season
* Watch out: this post has been censored on SEOptimise a year ago because it can allegedly hurt religious feelings! Thus I apologize in advance to gay Muslim anarchists and other religious minorities for not getting mentioned! It’s the…
Google Authorship Markup Disadvantages Everybody Ignores
One of my favourite SEO pundits is AJ Kohn. AJ is an eager early adopter of Google+ and Google authorship markup. That’s the thing that lets you display your image in search results. AJ and other people have written numerous…
Content is Tyrant: Is it Publish or Perish for Everybody Now?
* Summary: In the era of “content marketing” it’s not just scientists and SEO specialists who have to create content to survive. Every business seemingly has to as Google etc. needs content to monetize. Do you have to submit to…
How to Use the Google Disavow Tool for NOT Against Negative SEO
* Google first created the problem of so called negative SEO by taking “manual action” on links webmasters have no control over. Instead of just discounting “unnatural links” pointing to a site Google will make you responsible for them even…
Advantages of Google-Free Blogging
* OK, it’s been a few weeks since I banned Google on this blog and I see some of the consequences. In sheer numbers I get less “traffic” of course. I explained before how most of Google “traffic” weren’t real…
This is Why Google Search is Dead and What to Use Instead
I’m not a big friend of Google for a myriad of reasons. I won’t deal with those here. There is one simple reason why I prefer not to use Google Search though whenever possible. Google Search is dead, it’s not…
Does Getting Rid of Google Make Sense? Feedback from the Web
Most people in the SEO industry chose to ignore my symbolic act of banning Google and going Google-free after I got penalized for no apparent reason. In contrast articles on “how I tried to recover from Panda/Penguin for 6 mix…
Steal This Blog! SEO 2.0 Goes Creative Commons
* Over the years I admired the Creative Commons movement. I have not only been a big fan of it I also used a lot of Creative Commons licensed images here on my blog as metaphorical illustrations of my articles….
Giving All Your Great Content to Google For Free is Suicide
* When I chose to block Google recently some people considered me nuts, after all it sounds like suicide, especially for an SEO site. Actually it’s the exact opposite. Giving your most valuable assets to Google for free is not…
How Do You Attract Visitors Instead of Traffic to Your Site?
* A few years ago I noted that there is a difference between traffic and visitors in an article dealing with a broader topic. Then in early January of 2011 I have described it in more depth. Today I’d like…
Un-Google Yourself With These Alternative Tools
* Now that I banned Google on my blog I feel more confident about becoming independent from Google. You don’t have to be an anti-SEO self improvement guru who wants to live a perfect life to realize that Google is…
Unnatural Links: What is the Purpose of the Google FUD Campaign?
* Google has been sending out “unnatural links” warnings for some time. At first they meant you got penalized in Google search and thus you lost your rankings. Lately they have been sending out even more of the cryptic messages,…
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