Introducing 10 Traits of Green SEOs
Image by Dhammza. When one of my favorite green blogs was looking for a SEO expert recently I was seriously tempted to quit everything else and do Green SEO full time. It was one of the surprises of plunging in…
Top 10 Reasons Why SEOs Fail on Social Media
shout by suneko. Many search engine optimizers are still stuck in the past. They practice SEO 1.0 or less. These SEOs fail to adapt to the new Web 2.0 media environment and attempt to apply rules of the older Web…
How to Get Content and Earn Credibility with Old News
Brisbane 1959 – image by pizzodisevo. Who wants to read yesterday’s news? This might sound like a rhetoric question but it’s not: Google users or searchers want to read old news. They actually seek out your old, even archaic content…
3 Phases of Flagship Blog Growth or How to Fall in Love with Blogging
* Starting and maintaining a flagship blog is not really easy. You need perseverance and the will to keep on blogging no matter what happens. You need passion. You need to fall in love with blogging! I have it, so…
Findability, New and Better SEO? Experts Disagree; 12+ Findability Resources
Findability is a seemingly new term that has become a buzzword recently due to a book called Building Findable Websites by Aarron Walter (not to mix up with Aaron Wall, author of SEO Book). Now as a true SEO 2.0…
How to Get More Visitors for Your Blog Without Social Media Marketing
Give. Image by Mr. KrisPersonally I hate the term “marketing” as well as combinations like search engine marketing. Even more than that I despise the term social media marketing which is an oxymoron in itself. I wonder why I forgot…
10 Commandments of Business Blogging
Whatever you do, you need passion, image by fatboyke What exactly is business blogging? To me, at least in this post, it applies to any blogging attempt that is motivated by the advance of any business or marketing endeavour. It…
Dofollow Blog Commenting Netiquette vs a Barbecue Party
First off: The introduction of real links in comments via the dofollow plugin has been a huge success, especially as I am ranking high for both “dofollow” and “dofollow plugin” in Google by now because my article about the end…
The 10 Simplest Ways to Boost Your Social Media Credibility Right From the Start
As a very active social media user, some would probably say power user already, I notice the same mistakes over and over made by new users on social media sites. On the other hand it’s very easy to boost your…
Are You Proud of What You Do? I Am. You Should Too.
Image by CarbonNYC The perhaps most important factor at work, independent of industry or kind of employment, is pride. You have to be proud of what you do in order to create value and be happy. Zen Buddhists and other…
3 Approaches to Reputation Management: Which One Do You Need?
Already a while ago I acknowledged that reputation management is part of SEO 2.0. I never mentioned it again though since then. Reputation management is a relatively new term in SEO and it is hot. Really hot. Some social media…
The 7 Pillars of SEO 2.0
In order to succeed in a social media driven Web 2.0 environment website owners, bloggers and businesses have to take certain steps. These practical steps are based on a theoretical foundation with 7 main pillars. These 7 pillars of SEO…
10 Reasons to Use Social Media
In case you ever wondered why you are spending hours daily on the Internet without really working and you or others assume that you are wasting your time here are 10 reasons to use social media you might want to…
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