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7 SEO 2.0 Methods Obama Used to Score on the Web


SEO 2.0 is a term that summarizes all modern methods of making a message heard online, getting found via search engines or any feasible way of reaching an audience by use of ...
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The 7 Simplest Ways To Lower Your Bounce Rate and Get More Conversions


cc: Please open door slowly by splorp. Every website or blog has a purpose, be it a sale, a subscription or simply conveying the message, whatever it is. Achieving this goal ...
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Top 10 Firefox Extensions for Search, Website Optimization and SEO I Use


Besides using such obvious Firefox add-ons and toolbars like those for StumbleUpon, Delicious and Browzmi (the StumbleUpon, Twitter & Mixx combination on steroids) what does a holistic SEO 2.0 aficionado like Tad ...
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Blog Suicide: Top 7 Title & Meta Tag Mistakes that Kill Your Blog


Suicide by frozi. I'm shocked! Not only do bloggers waste time with meta tags although most of them are worthless for Google, bloggers hurt themselves using ...
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Top 7 Annoying StumbleUpon Mistakes


Mistakes, by electrospray. OK, I'm nearing my 10.000 "like it" stumbles (only ca. 1000 left) and I'm wondering how I can help people ...

10 Usability Sins that Make me Bounce and Never Come Back


Bounce rate means the number or rather percentage of people who leave your site instantly after taking a look for less than a second. Many people bounce due to your own mistakes ...
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The 10 Worst Findability Crimes Committed by Web Designers & Developers


Crime scene by Cati Kaoe. Web designers & developers often focus on web standards,

List of Short URL Services


What to do when you need short URLs (concise Internet/Web addresses or URL forwarding) for Twitter or elsewhere? Either you use the proprietary t.co shortener by Twitter itself big Google's URL shortener ...
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Top 10 URL Design Failures of Famous Websites


Famous painting, image by caribb, but no clue in the URL: http://flickr.com/photos/caribb/2355878576/ Do you know what the New York Times, the World Bank, Wordpress.com, PHP.net and others have in common? ...
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Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes


Address by sam.d URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your Internet address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there ...
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Saturday Night Fever for WordPress Theme Customization: How to Simplify


Dear reader, I assume that you rarely actually visit my blog. You probably read SEO 2.0 in Google Reader, Netvibes or Bloglines but indeed I look at my blog daily. After almost ...

10 Coding Guidelines for Perfect Findability and Web Standards


Perfect findability and web standards can be achieved with the same means when it comes to coding. Thus I collected a very simple list of 10 coding guidelines for ...
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How to Get Content and Earn Credibility with Old News


Brisbane 1959 - image by pizzodisevo. Who wants to read yesterday's news? This might sound like a rhetoric question but it's not: Google users or searchers want to read old news. ...
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Findability, New and Better SEO? Experts Disagree; 12+ Findability Resources


Findability is a seemingly new term that has become a buzzword recently due to a book called Building Findable Websites by Aarron Walter (not to mix up with Aaron Wall, author of ...
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Semantic SEO: Your Website is a Goldmine with On-Site SEO 2.0


* 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. In my SEO 2.0 blog ...
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The Most Important Difference Between Websites and Blogs


Website vs Blog: What's the difference? What is the single most important difference between "conventional" or "static" websites and blogs? Many people will probably reply Blogs are dynamic, websites are not Blogs ...
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Dofollow Blog Commenting Netiquette vs a Barbecue Party


First off: The introduction of real links in comments via the dofollow plugin has been a huge success, especially as I am ranking high for both "dofollow" and "dofollow plugin" ...
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SEO 2.0 Basics: WordPress URL Design


WordPress is, you might already suspect it, the most popular blogging platform aka blog CMS out there. Thee are plenty of good reasons to use it although WordPress has some ...

Blog Clean Up, PageRank Lottery, New Focus


Hello Readers, There are some changes on SEO 2.0 to announce: Blog clean up PageRank lottery New focus On Saturdays there always was clean up day in my family when I was a kid. So I ...

5 More Design + Usability + SEO Articles: The Clean Dozen


Some of you might have already noticed: A guest post of mine called 7 Must Read Design + ...