Social Media Best Practices: How to Serve Audience Interests

Social Media Best Practices: How to Serve Audience Interests

* This is part of a little series of posts about blogs, social media and search best practices. The article deals with “topical categorization” for social media audiences and beyond. In essence the post is not just about categories you…

Silly Marketers: SEO is for Kids

Silly Marketers: SEO is for Kids

* Many marketers just don’t get it. Either they are ignorant, silly or worse. Usually I’m not bashing anybody. Yet sometimes a post makes me think that we are still in 2003. As if social media were something completely new…

Sweetest Fight Ever: Hot Chocolate vs White Sugar

Sweetest Fight Ever: Hot Chocolate vs White Sugar

Do you remember how I defeated Lyndon of Cornwall SEO last time? Now he attempts a comeback on the link baiting scene. No chance man, White Sugar, formerly known as Mad Tad the SEO Destroyer is still the monarch! So…

Bonsai Blogging: How to Fail with Social Media

Bonsai Blogging: How to Fail with Social Media

You might not be interested in succeeding with social media. Boosting traffic, being bookmarked, getting new visitors, increasing your number of subscribers and AdSense revenues might all conflict with your blog’s growth plan. If you prefer to stay away from this…

Blogging for World Domination

Blogging for World Domination

Do you remember the early James Bond movies? There was always a bad guy mastermind in them. The one with the white cat? Blofeld was his name. Blofeld always aimed for global hegemony. Do you want to become a popular…

15 Ways of Disagreeing with Style

15 Ways of Disagreeing with Style

“I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends” – Dalai Lama. Quite often I am subject to or part of heated debates online. Why? My social SEO ideas are often perceived as radical in business circles. On the…

10 Misconceptions Why SEO is Better than SMO Refuted

Some bloggers argue that conventional SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is better than SMO (Social Media Optimization) for average small businesses.   What’s the difference between search engine and social media optimization? As I do not advocate a pure either or…

Why Social Media are Like Slavery and SMO Equals Abolitionism

Most people apparently think social media services based on User Generated Content (UGC) like YouTube Facebook Instagram are outright idealistic endeavors built for the benefit of humanity. Yet they are not. They are about business and making money. The question…

After Blogging Success: New Frontiers

After Blogging Success: New Frontiers

Success as most people define it (popularity) has one disadvantage: once it’s there, you take it for granted and get bored! With search, social media and blogging success becomes routine Then you start to look for a new frontier. Especially…

Steampunk vs Modern SEO – Competition vs Cooperation

Steampunk vs Modern SEO – Competition vs Cooperation

Steampunk is a popular trend among what we call retro future, or future of the past. It’s very popular among the DIY crowd. Steampunk makes modern appliances look like they have been built in the 19. century or the Victorian…

Popular Niche Social Media Communities

There are plenty of specialized social media communities by now. Sadly most of them poorly customized applications with no users. Yet some of them really rock and provide great niche news with a real user community behind them. So here…

Cyber-Bullying: How to Fool the Angry Mob

Cyber-Bullying: How to Fool the Angry Mob

Have you been dealing with cyber-bullying? I have had my fair share of fights online already. Why? After all I’m white male Christian and privileged. It’s my line of work. Search engine optimizers are the new Jews or “Negroes”. People…

Stop Link Building! Links vs Traffic

Stop Link Building! Links vs Traffic

Do you think that link building is the most important part of traffic generation nowadays? You may be right when you refer to website optimization for Google. You have other options though!   Link building or traffic generation? In the…

Why You Shouldn’t Read my SEO Blog

Why You Shouldn’t Read my SEO Blog

Have you ever read the Cornwall SEO blog? Me neither. Cornwall SEO Lyndon Antcliff aka Lyndoman offers just 19 reasons why you should not read his SEO blog. I can easily surpass that! Therefore I offer you not twice as…

Common Reasons Why You Get Addicted to Social Media

Common Reasons Why You Get Addicted to Social Media

Oh no! Did you just spent another hour on social media instead of working? You have to face the grim reality: it’s an addiction! I am probably addicted to social media! How about you? Can you stop using it at…

International Social News Communities

I don’t use English social news sites like Reddit for a plethora of reasons. It’s not that I dislike the democratic model of voting content up. It’s just that Reddit and its audience is quite often obnoxious. The world is…

10 Reasons Why SEO Haters Are Plainly Wrong

10 Reasons Why SEO Haters Are Plainly Wrong

It happened again! A verbal attack because of what I do for a living or others assume I do. Yeah, someone hates me because I have SEO in the title of my blog. This time it happened on a social…

The Real Rules of Social Media Marketing Unmasked!

The Real Rules of Social Media Marketing Unmasked!

A blogger once wrote down some very well known or should I even say “Captain Obvious” rules of social media marketing. This is good for sure! As I do not abide by any rules beside my own I remixed them…

Mob vs Smart Mob: Why Social Media Traffic Is Valuable

Mob vs Smart Mob: Why Social Media Traffic Is Valuable

Over the years many people in marketing or business in general have questioned the value of social media traffic. Are they right? No! I have been among the critics even though I hailed it as the best traffic source in…

SEO Bullshit

SEO Bullshit

Wow! More good ranking news: I ranked #4 for SEO bullshit on Google.com for a while! My main competition was Jason Calacanis who had been cited everywhere for saying “SEO is bullshit”. Well, in times of SEO 2.0 you can…