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* A business blog is not only a blog it’s also obviously a business. A business has to have some core values to be able to succeed in the long term. The market is volatile so that you need some…
A few days ago I’ve watched a very intriguing movie called The Joneses. It’s about a seemingly happy family who is moving to a new city. Their main motive is to sell products though. How do they do it? They…
* A few weeks ago I had a lively discussion on Twitter with two quite opinionated individuals who are quite known in the SEO industry. I won’t name them here to prevent this discussion from getting personal but I want…
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…
Graph: Yahoo Answers and Quora compared on Google Trends for Websites (plus Twitter and Tumblr for a better perspective) Many people ask questions on the Web, especially on search engines like Google but also on social media. Even in cases…
A while ago I have written a post about how you should treat the people who visit your blog. My point was that treating them like an amorphous mass of “traffic” is wrong and that you have to think about…
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…
Jaamit Durrani and a cat that looks like Hitler at Think Visibility. This is how funny @jaamit was.* Three months ago Jaamit Durrani had asked me whether I’m interested in the “head of SEO” position for Germany. I was of…
* One of the most important factors of my success until now is the fact that I was never been content with following. I never liked following orders following trends following people I always preferred leading. I’m not speaking of…
* 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?…
* 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…
* What is SEO 2.0? These are the 15 most important differences between SEO and SEO 2.0: SEO SEO 2.0 Link building, manually adding them, submitting static websites to directories, link exchange, paying for links Getting links, via blogging, writing…
Image: Open 19 by Rupert Ganzer. As a modern day SEO I deal half of the day with decreasing bounce rates. It means: I try to make people visiting websites stay longer on them or stay at all and click….
Non-profit SEO was on my mind for some time at least as long as I have known the Graphic Alliance, a social designers network of companies and individuals dedicated to social campaigns, non-profit advertising and media activism. SEO for non-profits…
Image: Node by Uqbar. As both business blogger and SEO am I aware of both sides of “link building”. I get lots of spammy comments from Asian “blog commenting services” but I also appreciate blog comments by fellow SEO practicioners,…
Three years ago I boldly predicted that social browsing services like StumbleUpon will kill Digg and SEO 1.0. Did they? No. I was wrong. Social networking did though. Let me explain. StumbleUpon was the first and only to succeed big…
The birds by rickydavid. This article has been updated on September 28th, 2010. 20 of the 50+ links have been replaced! When it comes to Twitter people are very divided. Some people hate Twitter, others love love it. Both of…
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…
Popular link building techniques get exploited or even abused and thus Google has to react. I’ve seen more and more of such cases with the recently hugely popular guest blogging. Thus you have to abide by these guidelines to get…
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