SEO
Search Engine Optimization obviously
40 Cutting Edge Social Media & SEO Services to Invest in Now
* Unless you lived under a rock for the last decade you already invest time and money in web design social media SEO link building analytics services. It's 2012 though and the social media and SEO landscape ...
30 Hands On Google Search Plus SEO Techniques for Getting Personal
Image above: I'm only ranking at #113 for [seo] in "people and pages" but some of my best friends are around me While everybody was writing posts what the new ...
Are Category Keywords in the URL a Significant Ranking Signal Now?
Above: Not personalized search results for the query [content strategy mistakes]. I rank at #7. Look who ranks at #2 and #4. While trying to assess the impact of stolen and otherwise ...
SEO Activism: Detox Campaign by Greenpeace
For years I've been a proponent of using SEO for more than just making money. Even on the Web it's "people before profits". You can't just do business as usual ...
How to Analyze Your Link Profile with cognitiveSEO Tools
These days you see lots of tutorials on how to export data from Google Analytics or Webmaster Tools to Excel to get an overview and analyze it. To be honest I hate ...
Where to Buy Links? Turkey!
Link building or attracting links is quite hard these days. Most people are looking for short cuts like paid links in spite of them being outside the Google Webmaster Guidelines. While some ...
Does Link Building Still Exist as an SEO Practice in 2011?
* This week I have written a post for the cognitiveSEO blog about the best link building blogs, experts and their most important postings from this ...
How to Fight Big Business in Google and Beyond with Smart Mob SEO
* Over the years I've been outranking big businesses, well known brands and major news media. I've been successfully competing with whole SEO teams. I've even managed to surpass spammers and black hat ...
Run DMC and Google Want You to “Keep it Fresh”
* Whether you’re spitting rhymes about gold chains and Adidas kicks, or shaping your web strategy, one thing is essential… "Keepin’ it fresh." Fresh content is unique and engaging, and Google likes that. It seems ...
Google Buys Links with Hidden Anchor Text
I was awestruck today when I noticed that the perhaps most important German blogging conference re:publica sells high PageRank links. Paid links are forbidden by the Google Webmaster ...
Google +1: The New SearchWiki?
2.5 Years ago I hailed the new search results customization feature by Google called SearchWiki. I loved it in spite of it being broken from the start. Nonetheless the sheer possibilities ...
Science vs Reality: Do Not Obey Scientists – Practice What Works in SEO & Beyond
* A few weeks ago I had a lively discussion on Twitter with two quite opinionated individuals who are quite known in the SEO industry. I won't name them ...
Are You After Traffic or Visitors?
A while ago I have written a post about how you should treat the people who visit your blog. My point was that treating them like an amorphous mass of "traffic" ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SEO vs SEO 2.0: Top 15 Differences
* What is SEO 2.0? These are the 15 most important differences between SEO and SEO 2.0: table{font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 11px;} td{border:1px solid black; text-align:left; vertical-align: text-top; padding: ...
What Does My Bounce Rate Really Mean?
Image: Open 19 by Rupert Ganzer. As a modern day SEO I deal half of the day with decreasing bounce rates. It means: I try to make people visiting websites ...
Non-Profit SEO Resources
Non-profit SEO was on my mind for some time at least as long as I have known the Graphic Alliance, a social designers network of companies and ...