Things categorized as 'Social Media'

Social news, bookmarking, networks and other ways to exploit the Internet addiction of innocent users

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10 New Google Personal Search Blogging, Social Media & SEO Tactics


Image: Trust by notsogoodphotography The new by default personalized search by Google is a big paradigm shift in SEO. Yesterday I wrote about the changes personal search will bring ...
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Death Threat by StumbleUpon Engineer


Just yesterday I published a post that bluntly criticizes the many shortcomings of StumbleUpon. A few hours ago I got the first ...
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12 Reasons Why StumbleUpon is Dead


Dead End is a Creative Commons image by Benny Lin StumbleUpon is dead. Read my story first and then the 12 reasons. It was long ago, probably a year or more, ...
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Twitter Lists for SEO How to


Twitter added lists to its Web interface. Twitter clients like Seesmic already follow suit by adding Twitter lists support. Everybody uses lists as if they ...
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Interview with SEO Rockstar & Personal Development Guru Glen Allsopp


Image: Rockstar by N1NJ4. As a regular SEO 2.0 blog reader you probably know who Glen Allsopp is. I have linked his blog postings quite often in the past and ...
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Google Indexes Twitter Links


How to get Indexed by Google in 2009? Just use Twitter. This is no joke. I ran a test on Twitter to find out whether Google indexes Twitter links and surprise, surprise ...
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101 Tweets on How to Use Twitter


Tweet is a Creative Commons image by Phillie Casablanca How to Twitter? A question asked by millions of clueless but eager to learn new Twitter users. First off: It's either ...

Platform Independent SEO & SEO 2.0


Platform independence is a term known from programming. In practice platform independent programming means that a piece of software does not depend on a certain browser, plug in or operating system. For ...

Authority and Trustrank


Yesterday I discovered the original Trustrank paper from 2004. Trustrank is a term coined by some Yahoo engineers to describe a new algorithm to determine relevant search results. The new thing ...

7 Social Sites Every Business and Professional Should Use


Update August 28th, 2009: Due to popular demand I added Facebook to the list. Also I put Friendfeed at the end of the list as not that important. Btw. it's ...
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StumbleUpon: 21 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Submitting


Question mark is a CC image by Marco Belucci With the meteoric rise of Twitter the social discovery service StumbleUpon got almost forgotten.
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The New Delicious Front Page is Broken and Easily Gamed


For years the Delicious front page has been the better Digg. No political bias, no teenage geek crap with b00bs, FAILs ...

SEO 2.0 Changes in 2009


Hello dear Readers, I have the pleasure to announce some minor as well as potentially major changes for both the SEO 2.0 blog and SEO 2.0 as a movement as well. Let's start with ...

6 New SEO 2.0 Definitions: It’s the People’s SEO, about Relevancy & ORM but not…


SEO 2.0 doesn't exist and I'm glad it doesn't! OK, SEO 2.0 doesn't exist according to Wikipedia. It existed, someone wrote an excellent article about it but the Wikipedia censors deleted it. ...

Top 7 Ways to Use Twitter for Marketing Purposes Correctly


Last time I wrote about Twitter and marketing it became the most read by subscribers post on SEO 2.0 ever. By now I think more than 1300 regular SEO 2.0 readers have ...
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3 Traits of True Social Media Experts


Expert by Pete Prodoehl is a Creative Commons image. In recent years and months the Web has been flooded by social media experts. They're everywhere you move, you ...
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10 Reasons to Follow Me/SEO 2.0 on Twitter


A few days ago one of my favorite architecture blogs published a post called "5 reason to follow ArchDaily ...

Top 9 Social News Mashup Sites


[Refresh Monday:] The post "top 10 social news mashup sites" has been quite popular on Twitter over the weekend so I decided to update it after almost 2 years. Several sites mentioned ...
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StumbleUpon Adds SEO Category


One of the greatest annoyances with StumbleUpon was the utter lack of an SEO category. You know SU is a social discovery service that ...