PageRank Superstition: 200+ Signals Are Not One Google Juice
Sorry Andy and the rest of the world: There is no hidden PageRank or Google juice that miraculously determines the ranking in Google’s results. It’s not 1998 anymore. A few months ago Google disclosed to the New York Times that…
Towards a New Defintion of SEO
While I promised you a redefinition of SEO when I started this blog, in fact it’s still my motto in the header, until now I delivered only an upgrade, a new version of SEO. Yes, SEO 2.0 until now…
Enlarge Your PageRank!!!
Click to enlarge! Oh, it doesn’t work? This is not a funny post. Some days ago a client of mine wrote me an angry email threatening to end our cooperation. Not any client, a client who is with me for…
7 Simple Ways to Use Universal Search to Appear on Top of Google
While many people still assume that SEO 2.0 is just a mislead term for SMO/M (social media optimization/marketing) it’s plainly put not true. In SEO 2.0 you still in many cases aim at search results in the broadest sense. One…
Silly Marketers: SEO is for Kids
Many marketers just don’t get it. Either they are plain ignorant, silly or worse. Usually I’m not bashing anybody but this time a post called “Silly Marketer… Mixx Is For Kids” [sic!] makes me think that we are still in…
How I Outranked Matt Cutts for the Term SEO in 7 Easy Steps
Do you know Matt Cutts? This famous cat blogger with the ugly WordPress theme? Yes, I know he is only famous because he works at Google and he can shatter lives of people who depend on online revenue with one…
7 Must Read End of Year Lists for Internet Power Users
While I’m not the typical end of year list type of guy, I feel that 2007 was a year that saw certain developments you shouldn’t miss as an Internet power user, SEO 2.0 being one of them. I won’t provide…
Seobook.com Banned at Mixx?
Update: The issue has been resolved already, seobook.com is reinstated. While I enthusiastically joined Mixx and participated eagerly since then one thing strikes me as more than unusual: It seems that one of the most renown SEO authorities, Aaron Wall…
10 Misconceptions Why SEO is Better than SMO Refuted
Wayne Smallman over at Blah! Blah! Technology has taken great lengths to convince people that conventional SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is better than SMO (Social Media Optimization) for middle sized and small businesses. As I do not advocate a pure…
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 SEO vs Social Media, Competition vs Cooperation
Steampunk is a popular trend among what we call retro future, or future of the past. Steampunk makes modern appliances look like they have been built in the 19. century or the Victorian age. It looks great and thus people…
30+ Reasons Why Your Web Design, SEO, Web Hosting or Startup Company Should Advertise on my Blog
After more than 3 years as a full time SEO consultant and 10 years in online publishing and 10 years writing for the web I realized that I can really write about just anything to make it popular. It’s the…
How to Get Any Story Buried on Digg
Do you believe in magic? I do. Especially if it can be done by anyone. Digg is a place where any Apple or game console marketer can succeed quickly in getting thousands of visitors. He just has to mention the…
3 Way Link Exchange with SEO Spammers Is a Dead End
Dear Webmaster, I would like to express my interest in 3 Way Link Exchange with your website for our mutual benefit. Your website link will be placed on linkfarm.com or SEO-spam-directory.com I will add your link here: uselessguide.com/Internet_and_Web_Services/Search_Engine_Optimization/ OR blahblah.com/directory/Search_Engine_Optimisation_2/…
10 SEO Client Archetypes
If you do 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. If it wasn’t that…
How I Increased my Traffic by 11259.7% in 3 Months in 10 Easy Steps
I was just playing around with popuri.us 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 ago. In fact I did not believe the stats…
5 More Design + Usability + SEO Articles: The Clean Dozen
Some of you might have already noticed: A guest post of mine called 7 Must Read Design + Usability + SEO Articles was published at the Small Business Hub blog. As the target audience over there are not the hard…
Best Search Engine According to Google
Google needs SEO to rank in Google! Why? Let me explain. Today everybody wrote about the Google optimization parody “What if Google had to design their user interface for Google?”. It’s both funny and sad that’s why it’s spectacularly successful…
Aaron Wall’s SEO Book Does Not Sell!
Nobody wants to buy SEO products. Seemingly nobody needs advanced SEO tools, an all-in-one SEO book, a versatile SEO software, the only one search marketing magazine that counts or worker owned green hosting with WordPress included. At least none of…
20 Ways to Get Legit Paid Links Without Getting Penalized by Google
Women are like websites. Getting links is like having sex. You can pay for sex or you get it for free. If you are very attractive you have no problems. If you are ugly, boring and shallow you have to…
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