How Microsoft Made the Web Ugly & What to Do About it
* This is a sad story with a happy ending about the way Microsoft has made the Web ugly and what to do about it. You have to act now though or you lose readers and customers. In a more…
Why Short Posts Beat Long Content: Time is Money
* Recently a new kind of debate has been taking place in what I’d like to call the post-SEO industry as content marketing doesn’t really describe all of it. In it the main argument is that, let me summarize it…
SEO 2.0 Goes Responsive Web Design with Origin
SEO 2.0 goes responsive web design with the free WordPress theme Origin by AlienWP. I kept my last theme for about 5 years by now and would even have sticked with it but it didn’t display properly on smartphones and…
Pinterest Optimization for SEO Machos
* “Pinterest Optimization for SEO Machos” is a guest post by Adrienne of Pongra. I have added some ugly remarks about male SEO practicioners in the post and made the headline a bit more controversial plus improved the readability a…
Idiotically Simple Ways to Make Your Crap Content Stand Out
* Whether you like it or not content is the current big thing at least when it comes to buzz. SEO is dead they shout, social media has no ROI they whine but great content is the emperor in the…
Readability Advice: Lorem Ipsum Yourself! I’m Not a Dummy
* One of the most important things on the Web is readability. Despite that to this day many webmasters, bloggers and even web designers neglect it. Recently an SEO blogger I asked to improve his post readability so that my…
What is Your Value Proposition and How Do You Present it?
* Many people like to optimize the call to action or other elements of landing pages but overlook the crucial aspect of any business website or even online interaction, the so called value proposition. I’m doing a lot of blogger…
This is Why Google Search is Dead and What to Use Instead
I’m not a big friend of Google for a myriad of reasons. I won’t deal with those here. There is one simple reason why I prefer not to use Google Search though whenever possible. Google Search is dead, it’s not…
7 Pinterest Mistakes Many Users Make and Quick Fixes
Pinterest? You are doing it wrong! OK, I admit it, I have been using Pinterest for some months already. I haven’t done any “marketing” over there. I just used it like a normal person would. I picked some of my…
Best SEO Website Design: SEO Companies Using Dark Backgrounds
SEO.com, USA Datadial, UK: A London Based Digital Web Agency iCrossing UK Voltier Creative, USA Sebcreation, France Union Room, UK RICG, USA alt design, UK …
10 Ways Piwik is Better Than Google Analytics
Piwik is is better than Google Analytics in many ways, at least 10 of them. It’s: Free, really free, you don’t pay with your data. Once you use Google Analytics you’ll get Adwords ads via mail both electronic and in…
How to Remove utm_source & Other Parameters From Your URLs
These days it’s a quite common and very annoying habit by a few services to attach utm_source and other parameters to your internet address aka URL. It’s not only that. Basically anybody can add anything as an parameter to your…
The Anatomy of an SEO 2.0 Web Directory of the Highest Quality
* I’m preparing a SEO 2.0 web directory right here on my blog as you might have noticed already. What? A web directory? In SEO 2.0? It sounds like a contradiction indeed. Aren’t directories either dead, spammy or low quality?…
Usability Experts Still Fail Themselves on World Usability Day 2010
* Two years ago I celebrated my first world usability day by pointing out usability mistakes usability experts commit. Fast forward to 2010 and what do I see? World Usability Day is here again and usability experts still can’t even…
Top 7 CSS Tricks for Better SEO
Google baby by skoop. As most of us know it is often really difficult to build websites for both the user and Google. Google still needs to be assisted in finding and assessing a website’s worth to such an extent…
Help Me Finding a Tagline for SEO 2.0!
Hello SEO 2.0 readers: After two years without a tagline on my blog I’m considering adding one again for usability reasons. A tagline is meant to explain the purpose of a blog or site in a few words or short…
10 Blogging Mistakes Most Bloggers Make
Executed by mistake is a Creative Commons image by the moog. Sometimes it takes years of blogging to notice your most obvious mistakes. I’ve been blogging for several years privately, then a few professionally and still do on several business…
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 and pwns. Just die hard tech and web dev resources. Today Delicious changed its front page though. Now you…
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. I’m glad. I prefer to spread the SEO…
User and Search Friendly URL Design for Multi-Language Websites in 4 Easy Steps
What an overwhelming headline! User and search friendly URL design for multi-language websites? What are you talking about? Let me explain. Then I’ll introduce to you the 4 easy steps you need to follow. One of the basic best practices…
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