Are You Engaging Enough to Join A Tribe?

Are You Engaging Enough to Join A Tribe?

People follow me on social media like Pinterest, LinkedIn or Twitter and expect me to follow back or promote their content right away with no engagement whatsoever or worse by spamming me. Most just lurk while others try to send…

Introducing Traits of Green SEOs

Introducing Traits of Green SEOs

* When one of my favorite green blogs was looking for an SEO expert I was seriously tempted to quit everything else and do green SEO full time.   The best of us look beyond profits Some of the most…

How to Get Attention Blogging Part-Time

How to Get Attention Blogging Part-Time

In the past I often made a common blogging mistake. It was trying to raise hell or be spectacular to get attention from readers. You really have to be to get engagement organically. Using hatebait to get there by way…

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…

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…

Global Food Crisis: How Bloggers and Social Media Users Can Help

Global Food Crisis: How Bloggers and Social Media Users Can Help

You may have read news about the exploding global food crisis all over the planet. You haven’t heard of it yet? Let me summarize it: It seems the whole world is starving besides us rich people in the West. We…

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…

10 Ways to Fight Back Content Thieves

10 Ways to Fight Back Content Thieves

Content thieves “make money online” off your content. This expensive sports car could be yours instead. You can use search by image on Google to find who uses your photos and Copyscape for your written content.   When content thieves…

The ROI of Blogging and Social Media

The ROI of Blogging and Social Media

For years ROI or Return on Investment was a term used by business people in suits and marketers who worked for them. Meanwhile search marketers often obsessed about rankings, traffic and conversions. Then ROI went mainstream as not only SEOs…

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…

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…

8 Life Changing Ways to Save Time for Productivity and Happiness

8 Life Changing Ways to Save Time for Productivity and Happiness

You can change your life right now. How? You can stop wasting your time. This way you will achieve higher productivity and experience more happiness. You will achieve it by doing what you really enjoy. By now I am able…

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…

Top 10 Social Media Sites in 2021

Top 10 Social Media Sites in 2021

It is hard to keep track of the trends in social media. Where do people socialize online in 2021? Some empires crumble (like MySpace). Others grow to prominence seemingly out of nowhere and disappear again (like Google+). Thus I decided…

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….