Top 10 Reasons Why SEOs Fail on Social Media

Top 10 Reasons Why SEOs Fail on Social Media

* Many search engine optimizers are still stuck in the past. These old school practitioners fail to adapt. They struggle with the new social media environment and attempt to apply rules of the legacy Web to the new environment. To…

7 Completely Insane Black Hat SEO 2.0 Techniques

7 Completely Insane Black Hat SEO 2.0 Techniques

Most average people assume that SEO is bullshit, evil and spam. Maybe it’s even a sexually transmitted disease! Who am I to disagree? A poet? Why not ride the wave instead? Why not go black hat? Wearing a Black Hat…

Top 10 Reasons Why Great Content Fails on Social Media

Top 10 Reasons Why Great Content Fails on Social Media

One day I published a post that took me a long time to write and was well crafted timely pillar content. You won’t believe what happened next!

3 Phases of Blog Growth or How to Love Blogging

3 Phases of Blog Growth or How to Love Blogging

* Starting and maintaining a high quality or flagship blog is not really easy. You need perseverance and the will to keep on blogging no matter what happens. Yet that’s still not enough to keep your blog growing. You need…

Findability: New and Better SEO?

Findability: New and Better SEO?

Findability is a term that has become a buzzword for a while due to a book called Building Findable Websites by Aarron Walter. I’m always on the lookout for new concepts and innovation. Thus I made a little time to…

Semantic SEO: Your Website is a Goldmine with On-Site SEO 2

Semantic SEO: Your Website is a Goldmine with On-Site SEO 2

* You think on-page SEO is dead? It hasn’t even begun! To be clear, your website is a goldmine and you haven’t even started to dig for the gold. On my SEO 2 blog I have covered blogging, social media…

How to Get More Visitors for Your Blog Without Social Media Marketing

How to Get More Visitors for Your Blog Without Social Media Marketing

Please excuse my honesty! Personally I truly dislike the term “marketing” as well as combinations like search engine marketing. Even more than that I despise the term social media marketing which is a contradiction in itself. Either you socialize with…

10 Commandments of Business Blogging

10 Commandments of Business Blogging

* Whatever you do, you need passion! What exactly is business blogging? To me it applies to any blogging motivated by the advancement of any business or marketing goals. It may even apply to blogging for a cause like many…

Top 10 Proven Headline Formulas for Tremendous Online Success

Top 10 Proven Headline Formulas for Tremendous Online Success

Do you need some proven headlines for tremendous online success? Do you need headline ideas that work on social media and beyond? You have come to right place! I’ve been crafting intriguing headlines for 15+ years! Try some of these…

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…

WordPress Post Address Best Practices

WordPress Post Address Best Practices

WordPress is – you might already know it – the most popular blogging platform and content management system on the Internet. There are plenty of good reasons to use it although WordPress has also some major drawbacks. WordPress is bloated…

The 10 Simplest Ways to Boost Your Social Media Credibility From the Start

The 10 Simplest Ways to Boost Your Social Media Credibility From the Start

As a very active social media user – some would probably say power user already – I notice the same mistakes over and over made by new arrivals on social media sites. On the other hand it’s very easy to…

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…

SEO 2 Best Practices: Finding Images/Choosing Free Photos

SEO 2 Best Practices: Finding Images/Choosing Free Photos

Back when I just started the SEO 2 blog I used images only as a nice to have addition. Why? I wrote and published a lot while there weren’t many free (to use) photos back then. Nowadays you always need…

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…

10 Reasons to Use Social Media

10 Reasons to Use Social Media

Have you ever wondered why you are spending hours daily on the Internet without really working? Some people assume that you are wasting your time when looking at cute cat images on Facebook. Here are 10 reasons to use social…

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….