100+ RSS Subscribers! Or How to Count Them
SEO 2.0 has 100 RSS subscribers! After roughly ten weeks of blogging. At least 100. AFAIK. 91 at Google and 9 and Bloglines. So if you subscribe using any other service (I use Netvibes for instance) say “yeah!” Come on!…
Does StumbleUpon Crack Down on SEO Already?
Today I was surprised to see that over at StumbleUpon 4 users reviewed my ode to the SEO community in the 20 Sphinn stars post and overall 12 stumblers liked it. Why was I surprised? I was taken off because…
20 Sphinn Stars Who Make the SEO Community Truly Great
Hey, there are just too many people on Sphinn I appreciate, so following the 3 favorite Sphinn users I did not know before meme is very difficult. Moreover I just don’t know anymore whom I noticed where, as I started…
Stop Link Building, Links != Traffic
Do you think that link building is the most important part of SEO nowadays? You may be right if you refer to SEO as search engine optimization for Google. In this SEO world you get your links, Google assesses them…
57 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Read my SEO Blog
Have you ever read the Cornwall SEO blog? Me neither. Cornwall SEO Lyndon Antcliff aka Lyndoman offers just 19 reasons why you should not read his SEO blog. I can easily surpass that! Therefore I offer you not twice as…
Digg-Like International Social News Communities
If you read SEO 2.0 before you know that I do not like Digg, for several reasons. It’s not the democratic spirit I dislike about Digg, it’s the contrary of it. I dislike the elitism of the Digg voting system…
The Real Rules of Social Media Marketing Unmasked!
Glen inspired me. He wrote down, among other, some well known rules of social media marketing. As I do not abide by any rules beside my own and disagree with many of those I rewrote them so that all of…
For Design, Usability and SEO Simplicity Is Key
During August I collected 5 articles which had one thing in common: Simplicity. Their focus differed substiantally. It was either design, usability or SEO but in all three cases simplicity and simplifying the user interface aka website was key for…
Classic StumbleUpon Traffic Optimization Articles
Even before publishing my post hailing StumbleUpon as the best traffic source in the world, 2 of my posts got stumbled in the meantime. So I decided to look closer at StumbleUpon optimization techniques. In fact there are lots of…
Mob vs Smart Mob: 7 Reasons Why StumbleUpon Traffic Is the Best Social Media Traffic
Do you think Digg and Reddit or Twitter and Facebook are the places to go nowadays? Never used StumbleUpon until now? You should try StumbleUpon, both as a user and a webmaster. Users get highly relevant content that matches their…
The Secret of John Chow’s Success Revealed!
As I always aim to surpass the best of the best I wondered for a while how John Chow managed to gain as much popularity on the Net. What’s the secret of his success? Well, now I finally found out!…
SEO Bullshit
Wow! More good ranking news: I rank #4 for SEO bullshit at Google.com! My main competition is Jason Calacanis who is cited everywhere by saying “SEO is bullshit”. Well, in times of SEO 2.0 you can really say that SEO…
The 7 SEO Blogs with the Funniest Names
Today I noticed on my referrers that I entered the Google.com top 100 for “seo blog” which is kind of interesting as I do not optimize for that and barely use the word “blog” on my journal at all ;-)…
5 Dirty Blogging Tricks
Even in white hat SEO or blogging the SEO 2.0 way you can use some dirty tricks that will make you earn 100.000$ in 3 months your blog a little more successful. I collected 5 of them, which of course…
Review: Better Blogging with Michael Martine
As I announced in my post called free website review I will review at least 5 websites from now on, but I guess more. #1 is Michael Martine and his Better Blogging weblog. Michael Martine is a renown blogger and…
How Blogging Made Me Famous in Less Than 3 Weeks
The SEO 2.0 blog is 3 weeks old by now. Already, I am kind of famous. It is of course somewhat a proof of concept. I want to practice what I preach and know myself if it and how it…
Some of the Best SEO Company Website Designs
As I mentioned earlier, great CSS design is one of the main pillars of new school SEO or SEO 2.0. Many SEO company sites still look ugly. What sense does it make to be #1 in Google if your visitors…
Be the New York Times Of Blogging
What kind of newspapers do you read offline? Are you rather the New York Times or the New York Post type? To make the comparison more obvious: Are you rather a The Independent or The Sun type? With the emergence…
SEO Life Guards: They Sent Beautiful Pilgrims After Me!
This is a really tough moment for me: I just can’t disagree with beautiful women. The case is even worse as it is not only a beautiful woman I have to disagree with now, she is also a pilgrim! You…
Blog Rock & Roll
After two weeks of blogging at SEO 2.0 I already found several like minded people with outstanding blogs I have never before heard of. Some of them are pretty new, others are just too good to become well known as…
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