Why Image Optimization is Important for Blogs

Why Image Optimization is Important for Blogs

This time, instead of explaining why image optimization is important for blogs I will simply demonstrate it. One day I checked my search traffic from Google. These were the top 12 search referrers for that month on SEO 2.0: Search…

Top 10 Most Insane Reasons Why Blogging for Social Media Sucks

Top 10 Most Insane Reasons Why Blogging for Social Media Sucks

* OK, I admit it! I’m part of the problem here. It all started with link baiting a few years ago. Then blogging for a social media audience has become common place. Sometimes it seems there is not a single…

7 Reasons to Hide Posts from Feed Subscribers + Front Page Visitors

7 Reasons to Hide Posts from Feed Subscribers + Front Page Visitors

A WordPress plugin that removes posts from the blog feed is what I’ve been searching for like forever. I finally was successful. I’ve found Stealth Publish. The official feature description is even more promising: “Prevent specified posts from being featured…

Social Media Trends You Must Be Aware of

Social Media Trends You Must Be Aware of

Social media is evolving, revolving and sometimes struggling. It seems there are trends which are there for a while now. Some sites reflecting overall trends lose steam and die while others are born and/or accelerate. Here is a number of…

Who to Follow on Twitter?

Who to Follow on Twitter?

* Twitter is very beneficial for your social SEO! In fact Twitter is more about modern SEO than other social media I hailed during my early years. Yeah, Twitter has surpassed my wildest expectations. Why is Twitter so valuable for…

SEO 2.0 Reality Check: What Works?

SEO 2.0 Reality Check: What Works?

* I’ve been writing for this blog and popularizing SEO 2.0 for 15 years! Yes. It’s time to review some of my theories and predictions. I have promised you a new era. Did it really arrive? Did SEO 2.0 turn…

The Best Short Link Tools for Business Statistics

The Best Short Link Tools for Business Statistics

As of 2023 I’ve spent lots of time using X and Twitter for business and writing about it. While at it I tested numerous short link tools over the years. By now there are really good URL shortening services as…

The Best Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration

The Best Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration

What is image bookmarking and how can it improve your overall creativity? It’s simple. You view amazing images by others and get inspired! Indeed you can use image bookmarking sites like Pinterest for daily inspiration. There is a steady stream…

Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov – When will it come to your Website?

Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov – When will it come to your Website?

Image: Brick Obama by ~emeph Immediately after Barack Obama has been sworn in as the new president of the United States the Whitehouse.gov website has been relaunched. Some of the most important aspects of this change are: It has a…

7 Optimization Techniques I Learned from Playing With my 7 Year Old Daughter

7 Optimization Techniques I Learned from Playing With my 7 Year Old Daughter

Working on a computer is often frustrating when you have kids. They come over to see you sitting all day at the same place staring into a bright light source and wonder why you sit there. This Sunday though was…

7 Autopilot Link Building Techniques

7 Autopilot Link Building Techniques

The most important thing in SEO 2.0 is to stop “link building” and to start “getting links” or “earning links”. Link building will always be artificial to some extent whereas when you get links from people who link you voluntarily…

7 Rules of Ethical SEO to Respect

7 Rules of Ethical SEO to Respect

* Do you practice SEO? You probably do! Maybe without knowing. Every time you publish something on social media or your website you do SEO! You probably consider headlines and keywords and want to get noticed or found. This is…

Social Search: Power to the People! Great News for SEO 2.0

Social Search: Power to the People! Great News for SEO 2.0

[Update: Google’ SearchWiki has been discontinued. Some features have been later adopted for new services like Google+] Above you see the Google results for SEO I wanted to see when Google introduced social search features called SearchWiki, but Google didn’t…

Web Success Without SEO Works: How I Entered the Top 10 for SEO Blog

Web Success Without SEO Works: How I Entered the Top 10 for SEO Blog

When I started this blog – SEO 2.0 – I proclaimed that SEO is dead and that you don’t need it anymore to succeed on the Web. Moreover I proclaimed a new kind of SEO, SEO 2.0 which works almost…

Quick Guide to Social Media and WordPress Categories vs Tags

Quick Guide to Social Media and WordPress Categories vs Tags

* One of the most annoying issues on social media, both from a user and a webmaster perspective is the often faulty categorization by users. Many people mix topics and categories in a way nobody really can appreciate. Why does…

Is Commenting on Dofollow-Blogs a Link Building Strategy?

Is Commenting on Dofollow-Blogs a Link Building Strategy?

* This post is about commenting on so called “dofollow-blogs”. Does commenting as a link building strategy make sense? Spoiler alert: it doesn’t in most cases. Yet it can. Let me explain why! The Bad Habit of SEO Worst Practices…

7 Blogging Lessons from Barack Obama

7 Blogging Lessons from Barack Obama

Obama has taught me a few very important things: lessons from Barack Obama and how they relate to my area of expertise blogging, social media + search

7 SEO 2 Techniques Obama Used to Score on the Web

7 SEO 2 Techniques Obama Used to Score on the Web

What is SEO 2? It’s not just about getting found via search engines! It is a term that encompasses modern techniques of making a message heard online. It’s also using any feasible way of reaching an audience by use of…

What Social Media Benefits for Business Can You Expect?

What Social Media Benefits for Business Can You Expect?

Some misguided business people and even marketers dismiss social media saying things like “social media traffic is low value”. Dismissing social media traffic value is like saying that planes suck because you can’t drive them. It’s not just about the…

The Best Ways To Lower Your Bounce Rate [CRO]

The Best Ways To Lower Your Bounce Rate [CRO]

* Every website or blog has a purpose! It can be it a sale, a subscription or simply conveying the message. Achieving this goal is called conversion. The process of doing it is the discipline of Conversion (Rate) Optimization or…