Global Food Crisis: How Bloggers and Social Media Users Can Help

Global Food Crisis: How Bloggers and Social Media Users Can Help

You may have read news about the exploding global food crisis all over the planet. You haven’t heard of it yet? Let me summarize it: It seems the whole world is starving besides us rich people in the West. We…

What Easter Can Teach Us About Search, Social Media and Blogs

What Easter Can Teach Us About Search, Social Media and Blogs

Yes. I usually enjoy a short break during holidays like Easter Yet I often can’t resist to think about SEO 2! It consists of three major parts: I want to share with you a saying that kept popping up on…

Dofollow Blog Commenting Etiquette vs a Barbecue Party

Dofollow Blog Commenting Etiquette vs a Barbecue Party

* How to comment on “dofollow” blogs without getting marked as SPAM? Is there a way to add actual value to your comment even though you’re just after the link? Does commenting on a “dofollow” blog work for bloggers who…

Zen Master Seo-ing Singsun About SEO, Enlightenment and Authority Links

Zen Master Seo-ing Singsun About SEO, Enlightenment and Authority Links

Zen master Seo-ong Sangsun is the closest to my dream appearance Tonight I had a dream. In the dream Zen master Seo-ing Singsun spoke to me. I could even ask him some questions. I was also able to memorize some…

Are You Proud of What You Do? I Am. You Should Too.

Are You Proud of What You Do? I Am. You Should Too.

The perhaps most important factor at work, independent of industry or kind of employment, is pride. Are you sure? How that? You have to be proud of what you do in order to create value and be happy. Zen Buddhists…

The 3 Types of Online Reputation Management You Need

The 3 Types of Online Reputation Management You Need

Online Reputation Management was a relatively late addition to search engine optimization and it was part of a larger marketing trend. The hype has subsided over the years yet so called ORM or Online Reputation Management is the daily bread…

What is SEO 2.0? Add Your Definition Now!

Soon I will truly redefine SEO. Not just upgrade to version 2.0, I will redefine SEO as a whole! Thus I want to know how well my propaganda and brain washing techniques have worked until now. I want you to…

The 7 Pillars of SEO 2: All You Can E-E-A-T [sic!] to Become POPULAR

The 7 Pillars of SEO 2: All You Can E-E-A-T [sic!] to Become POPULAR

It’s 2024 and Google attempts to fend off the AI crap invasion using its E-E-A-T principles. Will it be enough to become popular? I don’t think so. In order to succeed in a social media driven online environment have to…

PageRank Superstition: 200+ Signals Are Not One Google Juice

PageRank Superstition: 200+ Signals Are Not One Google Juice

* There is no hidden Google juice that miraculously determines the ranking in Google’s results like some people still claim. It’s not 1998 anymore.   PageRank vs 200 ranking signals One day Google disclosed that about 200+ so called “signals”…

Towards a New Defintion of SEO

Towards a New Defintion of SEO

* I promised you a redefinition of SEO when I started this blog. In fact it’s still in the name of it. Where is it you might ask. Until now I delivered only an upgrade, a new version of SEO….

Enlarge Your PageRank!!!

Enlarge Your PageRank!!!

Click to enlarge! Oh, it doesn’t work? This is not a funny post. One day out of the blue a client of mine wrote me an angry email threatening to end our cooperation. Not any client, a client who has…

Simple Ways to Use Universal Search to Appear on Top of Google

Simple Ways to Use Universal Search to Appear on Top of Google

Back in the days search was about the proverbial “10 blue links” that lead to actual results on third party websites. Not anymore. What happened? Universal Search! In this post I will show you some simple ways to use Universal…

Silly Marketers: SEO is for Kids

Silly Marketers: SEO is for Kids

* Many marketers just don’t get it. Either they are ignorant, silly or worse. Usually I’m not bashing anybody. Yet sometimes a post makes me think that we are still in 2003. As if social media were something completely new…

How I Outranked Matt Cutts for the Term SEO in 7 Easy Steps

How I Outranked Matt Cutts for the Term SEO in 7 Easy Steps

Do you remember Matt Cutts? This famous cat blogger with the basic WordPress theme? He now works for the Pentagon on cyber-warfare. Yes, I know he is only famous because he worked at Google a few years and he could…

10 Misconceptions Why SEO is Better than SMO Refuted

Some bloggers argue that conventional SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is better than SMO (Social Media Optimization) for average small businesses.   What’s the difference between search engine and social media optimization? As I do not advocate a pure either or…

Interview With Myself

Hello world! My name is Tad Chef of the world famous SEO 2.0 blog. Now I present to you my first audio post*. I call it an „interview with myself“. Interviews are a vital way to make people disclose information…

Steampunk vs Modern SEO – Competition vs Cooperation

Steampunk vs Modern SEO – Competition vs Cooperation

Steampunk is a popular trend among what we call retro future, or future of the past. It’s very popular among the DIY crowd. Steampunk makes modern appliances look like they have been built in the 19. century or the Victorian…

10 SEO Client Archetypes to Beware of

In case you offer SEO for clients like I do, after some years you see several kinds of patterns. My nerves get sometimes a little strained with some and I guess I am not the only one. Other than that…

How I Increased my Traffic by 11259.7% in 3 Months in 10 Easy Steps

How I Increased my Traffic by 11259.7% in 3 Months in 10 Easy Steps

I was just playing around with Web analytics tools and happened to click on my Compete.com stats. There I realized that my traffic increased by 11259.7% (no mistake here) compared to a year earlier. In fact I did not believe…

Best Search Engine According to Google

Google needs SEO to rank in Google! Why? Let me explain. I read numerous posts about the Google optimization parody “What if Google had to design their user interface for Google?”. It’s both funny and sad and that’s why the…