SEO is Alive!

When I started out this blog in 2009 years I said what nowadays is almost a running gag: “SEO is dead“. You could assume I am the most unlikely person to tell you that SEO is alive. Take a look…

Hey Google! Sunset Your Unnatural Oral Action or I’ll Nofollow You

* Do you remember the days when “manual action” was something desirable and NSFW? Listening to Google spokespeople turns more bizarre with the years. They have come up with their own language to hide the sour facts of penalties faulty…

Content Creation Can’t Cure Cancer

* Summary: Content is not a one size fits all solution, especially for small business owners who can’t afford to become publishers. When does content actually make sense and how? What else can small businesses do that don’t have a…

The Luxury Resort Type of Blog

* Ever since I have banned Google search on my blog I rely solely on direct, social media and other referral traffic. Oh, well, there is some search traffic from the likes of Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo but it’s negligible. The…

Case Study: The Value of a Blog Post

Sometimes when I tell business owners how much I charge for blog posts they tell me that it’s expensive. Of course it’s not. Why?   Creating content vs link building At the same time they would gladly throw that same…

Broken Social Media: Anti-Social Sites vs Alternatives

* Some of the so called social media sites are broken and a waste of time. In fact they are not social at all, they are anti-social. Don’t Waste Your Time – Move On! You not only waste your time…

Rising Above the Noise Level of the Web

* Now that everybody has to create “great content” to please Google and its share holders the noise level of the Web is overwhelming. Everybody is forced to publish harder faster better stronger and of course more. Thus there is…

How to: Broken Link Outreach Using an SEO Crawler

For years I have been looking for a both easy to use and free way to perform so called broken link building. I have tested lots of broken link checkers, advanced SEO tools and browser plugins for that purpose. The…

Questions to Ask Before Each Project Starts

* So you are starting a new blog? Do you just consider buying a new domain? There are a lot of down to earth questions to ask! When? You have to ask the hard questions before you launch a website…

6 Years of SEO 2.0 Anniversary

Yes, it’s already 6 years ago that I started SEO 2.0, the blog you are reading right now. So this is an anniversary! The blog had a lot of ups and downs ever since and it has slowed down for…

Free Traffic vs Gatekeeper Traffic

* Usually I prefer to speak about visitors not traffic as in people visiting your site. Why? The term “traffic” is too fuzzy. It fails to really explain what is going on on the Web. It’s a misleading metaphor when…

Why Berlin Tourists Eat Currywurst and the Creation of Generic Brands

As you might have noticed I live in Berlin, Germany. That’s a hugely popular place among tourists from all over the world. The area I live in is full of hostels, night clubs and places to eat out. There are…

10 Things the Unnatural Links Penalty Taught me [Google SEO]

I didn’t expect to get penalized for unnatural links at all! That’s why I noticed it very late. It also sucked! Why? The whole process of dealing with the unnatural links penalty has been “problematic” itself to say the least….

Quality Sites Are the New Links and Santa Exists

According to Google and Search Engine Land the decades old practice of link building has been replaced by “building quality sites” back in 2013. Is SEO dead then, again? No, that’s not a joke. This is official. The webmaster guidelines…

Proxima Nova Webfont: Best Font for Body Text Readability? Examples + Download

One day I wrote about how Microsoft made the Web ugly. Then I suggested a solution: webfonts. Yet there is a caveeat! Only some webfonts work for body text – not just headlines! This time I want to show you…

When Slow Corporations Take Over Swift Startups

* One day the good old Yahoo has taken over the fresh and popular blogging community Tumblr. I was thinking for a while what it means. I took a deep breath. Then I recounted other similar mergers in the past…

Reshare This if You Love Your Mother!

I know that today is not Mother’s Day. I love my mother every day though. Do you? In case you love your mother reshare this! Now, who will say “no” and refrain from resharing? Many people will feel compelled to…

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…

Where Did All The Search Traffic Go?

* BuzzFeed reports that “Traffic from Google to digital publishers dropped 30% over the past eight months.” based on traffic statistics from over 200 major media properties, among them BuzzFeed Time Huffington Post Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated Overall social media…

The SEO Acronym Definition and How to Use Humor to Get it

What Does the SEO Acronym Mean Actually? Even in 2023 many people will still wonder what the SEO acronym means. I can’t blame them. SEO or Search Engine Optimization as most people refer to it is still hard to fathom…