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

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

* 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…

SEO 2.0 is Like Poetry

When I was young and idealistic, that is when I didn’t have to spend most of my time earning money to pay the bills, I used to write poetry. It wasn’t bad poetry at all, at least after a few…

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 encourage conversation, websites do not Blogs offer feeds,…

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

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

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…

Dofollow Blog Commenting Etiquette vs a Barbecue Party

* How to comment on “dofollow” blogs without getting marked as SPAM? Is there a way to add actual value to your comment even though you’re just after the link? Does commenting on a “dofollow” blog work for bloggers who…

WordPress Post Address Best Practices

WordPress is – you might already know it – the most popular blogging platform and content management system on the Internet. There are plenty of good reasons to use it although WordPress has also some major drawbacks. WordPress is bloated…

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…

Zen Master Seo-ing Singsun About SEO, Enlightenment and Authority Links

Zen master Seo-ong Sangsun is the closest to my dream appearance Tonight I had a dream. In the dream Zen master Seo-ing Singsun spoke to me. I could even ask him some questions. I was also able to memorize some…

Based on my 15+ years of experience as a blogger I compiled a list of the most inspiring blogging niches! These types of blogs are a constant inspiration on the English speaking Web for like a decade or more. The…

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…

Are You Proud of What You Do? I Am. You Should Too.

The perhaps most important factor at work, independent of industry or kind of employment, is pride. Are you sure? How that? You have to be proud of what you do in order to create value and be happy. Zen Buddhists…

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

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…

Soon I will truly redefine SEO. Not just upgrade to version 2.0, I will redefine SEO as a whole! Thus I want to know how well my propaganda and brain washing techniques have worked until now. I want you to…

SEO 2 Best Practices: Finding Images/Choosing Free Photos

Back when I just started the SEO 2 blog I used images only as a nice to have addition. Why? I wrote and published a lot while there weren’t many free (to use) photos back then. Nowadays you always need…

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…