Unless you’ve been hiding in a cage for a few months you have heard the news: Pinterest is the best thing since sliced bread. I don’t want to join the myriads of opportunistic writers and hail the new hype. Instead…
It’s not the packaging, it’s what’s inside. Here it’s anti-gravity from Brooklyn Superhero Supply. A few weeks ago I published a list post about the 10 most common content strategy mistakes most businesses make. I promised back then to go…
* Unless you lived under a rock for the last decade you already invest time and money in web design social media SEO analytics services. It’s 2012 though and the social media and SEO landscape is changing at an alarming…
Image above: I’m only ranking at #113 for [seo] in “people and pages” but some of my best friends are around me While everybody was writing posts what the new Google personal search aka “Google Search Plus Your World” means…
* Lately many influential bloggers have written about the end of the golden age of tech blogging. They say “tech” but in a way they mean blogging in general it seems. Some people were furious and asked whether “over” is…
These words may be correct English but nonetheless they make you appear like an idiot when you use them on your blog. Why? They have obviously negative or hidden meaning that influences your readers. Thus they damage trust in you…
Above: Not personalized search results for the query [content strategy mistakes]. I rank at #7. Look who ranks at #2 and #4. While trying to assess the impact of stolen and otherwise copied content on my rankings here on the…
* Everybody seems to agree by now that you need „great content“ to succeed on the Web. Both social media and search engines require quality content as their business model relies on others, us, to produce that content. The problem…
This is a guest post by SEO strategist Moosa Hemani. It has been slightly edited by myself, Tad Chef. robots.txt, a protocol that helps search engines to find out which part of a website should not be included in its…
SEO 2.0 is for real. I practice what I preach. It’s not just talk to make more people follow me. I really visit every blog or site that my readers and commentators enter in the “website” input when they comment….
For years I’ve been a proponent of using SEO for more than just making money. Even on the Web it’s “people before profits”. You can’t just do business as usual when the planet and humanity with it goes down the…
These days you see lots of tutorials on how to export data from Google Analytics or Webmaster Tools to Excel to get an overview and analyze it. To be honest I hate Excel, I’m not a secretary. I don’t want…
* It’s not a secret that I’m not as active on SEO 2.0 as in the early days anymore. I’ve turned out an “occasional blogger” over the years while publishing SEO related articles mostly over at the SEOptimise blog. I…
* Wow. Awesome! After just a dozen of tries I could sign up for Google+! Sadly it happened on late Friday so that I ended up trying it out on the weekend. You know I hate working on the weekend…
Link building or attracting links is quite hard these days. Most people are looking for short cuts like paid links in spite of them being outside the Google Webmaster Guidelines. While some big brands may get away with paid links…
* This week I have written a post for the cognitiveSEO blog about the best link building blogs, experts and their most important postings from this year. It sounds funny in a way because I am the guy who has…
Image: This is how logged out Google users see Google +1 votes. They display only on the first result. When Google initially introduced the Google +1 feature for search results many people in the SEO industry and beyond argued that…
* Over the years I’ve been outranking big businesses, well known brands and major news media. I’ve been successfully competing with whole SEO teams. I’ve even managed to surpass spammers and black hat SEOs in some cases. Your competition on…
* Whether you’re spitting rhymes about gold chains and Adidas kicks, or shaping your web strategy, one thing is essential… “Keepin’ it fresh.” Fresh content is unique and engaging, and Google likes that. It seems nowadays, the Google team wants…
Usually when people refer to their competitors they name a few businesses from the same industry who sell the same products or services as them. This might be true for the offline world but on the Web there are much…
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