Simplicity
* Simplicity is the ultimate (form of) sophistication – Leonardo da Vinci When it comes to design or self improvement – two topics I follow in my free time – simplicity is widely accepted as the path to success. When…
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…
Why Short Posts Beat Long Content: Time is Money
* Recently a new kind of debate has been taking place in what I’d like to call the post-SEO industry as content marketing doesn’t really describe all of it. In it the main argument is that, let me summarize it…
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…
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,…
Why Peer-to-Peer SEO Beats Influencer Ass Kissing
* In the past I have written repeatedly about the need to find your peers and to work together with them for the benefit of all parties involved. On the Web it’s not about competing with 7 billions of people,…
7 Pinterest Mistakes Many Users Make and Quick Fixes
Pinterest? You are doing it wrong! OK, I admit it, I have been using Pinterest for some months already. I haven’t done any “marketing” over there. I just used it like a normal person would. I picked some of my…
Words that Damage Trust in Your Blog
These words may be correct English but nonetheless they make you appear like an idiot when you use them on your blog. Why? They have obviously negative or hidden meaning that influences your readers. Thus they damage trust in you…
Quora vs Yahoo Answers: Which Q&A Site is Better for Your Business?
Graph: Yahoo Answers and Quora compared on Google Trends for Websites (plus Twitter and Tumblr for a better perspective) Many people ask questions on the Web, especially on search engines like Google but also on social media. Even in cases…
How to Build Links Like Jaamit
Jaamit Durrani and a cat that looks like Hitler at Think Visibility. This is how funny @jaamit was.* Three months ago Jaamit Durrani had asked me whether I’m interested in the “head of SEO” position for Germany. I was of…
Lead or Follow?
* One of the most important factors of my success until now is the fact that I was never been content with following. I never liked following orders following trends following people I always preferred leading. I’m not speaking of…
The Anatomy of an SEO 2.0 Web Directory of the Highest Quality
* I’m preparing a SEO 2.0 web directory right here on my blog as you might have noticed already. What? A web directory? In SEO 2.0? It sounds like a contradiction indeed. Aren’t directories either dead, spammy or low quality?…
Usability Experts Still Fail Themselves on World Usability Day 2010
* Two years ago I celebrated my first world usability day by pointing out usability mistakes usability experts commit. Fast forward to 2010 and what do I see? World Usability Day is here again and usability experts still can’t even…
‘SEO is Dead’ is Dead
Diamond Skull by Damien Hirst. Image by Aaron Weber. Recently a post titled “How SEO is breaking the web (and killing Google)” has garnered almost 200 tweets. While I assume that many of them were automated tweets from accounts retweeting everything…
Panama Hat SEO
I confess: I’ve been lying to you all these years! I don’t wear a white sombrero like my avatar does. I wear a Panama hat instead. There is more to it than just the hat type I realized recently. It…
Sometimes Success Lies in Moderation
* Just yesterday I noticed that I entered the Adage 150 top marketing blog list at #143. Today I’m at #149. This might change quickly again so I’m not here to solely brag about it. The exact point in time…
How to Use LinkedIn for Marketing & SEO: Resources
LinkedIn Tattoo by smi23le Summary: This a a comprehensive list of LinkedIn Marketing and SEO resources for business people of all kinds. This post will give you an overview of state of the art LinkedIn optimization best practices and enable…
Arizona SEO Experts Against Racism
Would you stop this guy from entering Arizona? I don’t read the news. It makes me sick. Sometimes you can’t ignore the bad news though. They creep in from all over the place, Twitter, Facebook etc. One of the ugliest…
Interview with Business Blogger Steven Snell on His Recent 50k Blog Sale
Steven Snell is a professional blogger who also runs a design business. He is the man behind Vandelay Design, DesignM.ag and Traffikd. Especially his two flagship design blogs have been very succesful in the past both by the sheer numbers…
Are You a Real Time Idiot? A Racing Rat on Steroids? A Twitter Zombie?
Blue Eyed Zombie by Josh Jensen After spending two years on Twitter, participating almost daily there, I have noticed a gradual change in user behavior. It seems that many of us, including me are becoming real time idiots. Another tendency…
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