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 is based on “channel surfing the Web”. Without a matching channel many SEO postings were posted…
The Best SEO Strategy: Don’t Do SEO!
Unless you’re here for the first time you know that I’ve often written about SEO without SEO. What I meant was a new approach to SEO which basically goes beyond it or rather is natural site development that in the…
Hey Marketers on Twitter: It’s not a Link List
Although I don’t call myself a marketer, I’m an optimizer, most people assume I am one. So all kinds of marketers follow me on Twitter and I follow those marketers too who, in one way or another interact with me….
5 Keys to Twitter Headlines
CC: Keys by Stewart Leiwakabessy. Twitter headlines are about short striking descriptive tidbits that get retweeted frequently. Last year we had social media this year we have Twitter. No joke. You don’t do social media optimization anymore. You have to…
Top 10 Most Awesomely Amazing Creative & Funny Reasons Why Blogging for Social Media Sucks
CC: Eye am feeling silly by Cayusa. 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 so common place that…
12 Social Media Trends You Must Be Aware of
CC: Please use revolving door by Thomas Hawk. 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…
Social Media Refocus: What Site is Next?
Dear Readers, over the past 1.5 years I’ve spent a tremendous amount of time on my favorite 3 social sites, StumbleUpon, Sphinn and Mixx. Lately I’m mostly on Twitter though as it’s most rewarding most interactive and most face to…
Who to Follow on Twitter?
CC: The meaning of follow by dhammza. Twitter is SEO 2.0! In fact Twitter is more SEO 2.0 than StumbleUpon, Mixx or other social media I hailed. Yeah, Twitter has surpassed my wildest expectations. Why is Twitter so valuable for…
SEO 2.0 Reality Check: What’s True What Not?
CC: Reality Check by ScubaBear68. After 1.5 years of writing for this blog and popularizing SEO 2.0 it’s time to review some of my theories and predictions. I have promised you a new era. Did it really arrive? Did SEO…
URL Shortening Services with Statistics
By now I’ve spend lots of time using Twitter for business and writing about it. While at it I tested numerous short URL services. Finally I’ve found really good URL shortening services. Short URL tools that offer visitor statistics, campaign…
Kevin Rose Explains How to Spam Twitter and Everybody Loves it
CC: Cut here by Phoney Nickle. Kevin “cut teats” Rose, not only infamous for his sexist remarks but also as a failed entrepreneur who pownced his microblogging community is also known for his hate of SEO. In an interview he…
Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration
Social bookmarking, it’s what Delicious does (Digg is social news in contrast, while StumbleUpon is social browsing), is one of the best working things when it comes to the wisdom of crowds. While on Digg the ignorance of interest groups…
Meta-Social Media Services Compared
CC: meta mini moo by darkmatter. While taking a look at this list of social search engines compiled at the TopRank Online Marketing Blog it dawned on me: It’s about meta-social media. I’ve been encountering tools that fit the description…
In 2009 SEO 3.0 Arrives!
CC: Cheers 2009! by vv. Hello Everybody in 2009! In 2009 SEO 3.0 arrives! Just joking, SEO 2.0 stays SEO 2.0 – only the year has changed. I’ve been away for a few days and before that I’ve been pretty…
10 Christmas No-Nos for SEO Specialists to Avoid at all Costs
CC: Santa chucks the finger by BoSoxBrent. It’s this dreaded season again and all of us in the SEO industry will have to endure humiliations we have to face each year. To lessen the impact of the Christmas SEO woes…
7 Rules of Ethical SEO You Ignore Probably as a White Hat
Zero Harm by obLiterated. Ethics often consists of unwritten rules. Those rules while not official state laws or beyond them allow us to live together in peace and prosperity. While laws and religions prevent us from inflicting the most obvious…
10 Reasons Why Mixx is Broken and How to Fix it
Yeah, I can recognize the eyes. Seen them stolen again and again on Mixx. I’m fed up: My favorite social news site Mixx is currently broken. It’s not broken in a mere technical sense, it’s broken from the usability community…
SearchWiki: Power to the People! Great News for SEO 2.0
These are the Google results for SEO I want to see, but Google SearchWiki doesn’t want me to keep. Most of you have noticed by now, Google has introduced a new set of features to its search called SearchWiki. It’s…
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 completely different…
Quick Guide to StumbleUpon Categorization and Tagging
CC: Stumbling into happiness by szea. One of the most annoying issues on StumbleUpon, both from an user and a webmaster perspective is the bizarre categorization system. SU mixes tags and categories in a way nobody really grasps. You can…
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