10 Christmas No-Nos for SEO Specialists to Avoid at all Costs
CC: Santa chucks the finger by BoSoxBrent. It’s this dreaded season again and all of us in the SEO industry will have to endure humiliations we have to face each year. To lessen the impact of the Christmas SEO woes…
7 Rules of Ethical SEO You Ignore Probably as a White Hat
Zero Harm by obLiterated. Ethics often consists of unwritten rules. Those rules while not official state laws or beyond them allow us to live together in peace and prosperity. While laws and religions prevent us from inflicting the most obvious…
SearchWiki: Power to the People! Great News for SEO 2.0
These are the Google results for SEO I want to see, but Google SearchWiki doesn’t want me to keep. Most of you have noticed by now, Google has introduced a new set of features to its search called SearchWiki. It’s…
Web Success Without SEO Works: How I Entered the Top 10 for SEO Blog
When I started this blog, SEO 2.0, I proclaimed that SEO is dead and that you don’t need it anymore to succeed on the Web. Moreover I proclaimed a new kind of SEO, SEO 2.0 which works almost completely different…
7 Things Obama Has Taught Me
CC: Yes we can by zyrcster. Sorry to bother you again. I still can’t believe that America has made such a huge leap. A few days ago I wanted to write an article titled “Why Obama and America have already…
7 SEO 2.0 Methods Obama Used to Score on the Web
SEO 2.0 is a term that summarizes all modern methods of making a message heard online, getting found via search engines or any feasible way of reaching an audience by use of the Web. Typical SEO 2.0 methods are: Business…
What Social Media Benefits for Business Can You Expect?
Many people in business and even marketers discount social media as worthless saying things like “social media traffic is low value”. They are not completely wrong about that but they aren’t right in their conclusion either. Discounting social media is…
The Most Important Thing on StumbleUpon: Do Not Pose as, Be a Legit User
cc: Whiskeygonebad. The “Social Media Insider” over at the Invesp Blog recently wrote a post about StumbleUpon called “StumbleUpon: 3 Most Important Things To Keep In Mind” about promotion on SU. I found it on Sphinn and while I was…
Broken Social Media: Anti-Social Sites vs Alternatives
cc: broken by confusedvision. Some of the so called social media sites are broken and a waste of time. In fact they are not social at all, they are anti-social. So you not only waste your time using them you…
Common Blog Business Models: What Works What Not?
Flagship blogs, that is business blogs with really valuable content often have either an obvious or underlying business model. After more than one year in the blog business or rather watching it I have noticed some patterns with professional bloggers….
Spiritual Linkbuilding How to by Zen Master Seo-ing Singsun
Tonight I dreamt of Zen Master Seo-ing Singsun again. Last time I had attempted to make an interview but the outcome of my dream was difficult to understand as Zen spirituality is not easy to grasp at all and trapped…
7 SEO 2.0 Lessons: SEO for Humans Instead of Spiders is Not About Google and “Content is King”
Spider, really your preferred audience? Source. For years Google has been preaching building websites for humans not spiders. Nonetheless in reality Google still relies on webmasters to make their pages spider-friendly. To be honest I don’t like big Google and…
What the Numerous Digg Bans Can Teach Us about Social Media (Companies)
cc: All artworks by M Domondon. Digg, formerly known as user driven social news has shown its true nature in 2008: Banning some of their most valuable and active users. They did not solely ban the spammers or those who…
7 Ways Self Submission Hurts Yourself on Social Media
You’re not alone by confusedvision. Many webmasters still assume that self submission is the best way to gain links and exposure on social media. You just dump your content on a social site and “done”. Most social media experts will…
No-Go Area Digg: Top 10 Digg Criminals, Perverts and Mad Men
Crime Scene by freefotouk. As a social media fan and Mixx user I’m appalled by the horrendous conditions people over on Digg have to work at: No pay, no regulated work hours and they can be fired any day for…
How to Promote Yourself Without Promoting Yourself? The Secret of SEO 2.0
* Today I will reveal the secret of SEO 2.0! It shows how to promote yourself without promoting yourself. So fasten your seat belts. Why am I revealing it? I had a discussion with Shell Harris of Big Oak SEO…
Google Suggest Effects on SEO, Search Usage and Business Predictions
Who the hell is the Gossip Girl? Google Suggest, a former Google Labs feature, that offers searchers possible search queries based on the number of searches and findings, has been rolled out. Ever since the SEO community is buzzing around…
How Trust Made my Blog Triumph: 1000 Subscribers
Trust by hcii. Dear reader, if you’d ask me what the single most important factor in the success of my blog is I would reply: Trust!Trust is a tool that enables you to communicate and work together with people. In…
The Right Blog at the Right Time – 1 Year SEO 2.0
Yes, it’s already one year. One year has gone since I started this blog, SEO 2.0. I feel like looking back and analyzing. Was it worth it? Am I where I expected to be in one years time a year…
Are You SEO 2.0 Enough to Join Our Mixx Group?
Sadly I had to reject more and more potential SEO 2.0 group members over at Mixx. People apply for membership to our group with no or even worse bad credentials. Now I don’t use crude neologisms like SEO spammers but…
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