Mob vs Smart Mob: Why Social Media Traffic Is Valuable
Over the years many people in marketing or business in general have questioned the value of social media traffic. Are they right? No! I have been among the critics even though I hailed it as the best traffic source in…
The Secret of John Chow’s Success Revealed!
Have you ever wondered how well known “make money online” blogger John Chow managed to gain as much popularity on the Web in the early blogging era? What’s the secret of his success? The Name Wins the Game Well, one…
SEO Bullshit
Wow! More good ranking news: I ranked #4 for SEO bullshit on Google.com for a while! My main competition was Jason Calacanis who had been cited everywhere for saying “SEO is bullshit”. Well, in times of SEO 2.0 you can…
The 7 SEO Blogs with the Funniest Names
One day I noticed on my referrers that I entered the Google.com top 100 for “seo blog”. It was a surprise! Why? It’s kind of interesting as I did not optimize for that and barely used the word “blog” on…
Things to Love about Iran
When you listen to western media you tend to believe that the people of Iran are monsters. Why? Not only the tabloids are full of stereotypes, hate-mongering and misleading or downright fake news. Never mind that the US have probably…
Dirty Blogging Tricks
Even when you just start a blog you can use this or that dirty trick that will allow you to get rich quick make your blog more successful. I compiled a clean list of dirty tricks that may propel your…
How Blogging Made Me Famous in Weeks
The SEO 2.0 blog has made me famous after less than 3 weeks! It is of course somewhat a proof of concept. I want to practice what I preach and know myself if it and how it works. Thus I…
SEO Speak Translated: The Real SEO Glossary
* In the SEO industry agencies, experts and even bloggers have adopted a special mode of speech not to say slang that might be misunderstood by outsiders like clients, website visitors or the general public. To help you understand what…
Some of the Best SEO Company Website Designs
As I mentioned earlier, great website design is one of the main pillars of new school search engine optimization. Many agency sites still look ugly though or have a mediocre user experience. What sense does it make to be #1…
Be the New York Times Of Blogging
Do you read tabloids? What kind of newspapers do you read offline? Are you rather the New York Times or the New York Post type? To make the comparison more obvious: Are you rather a The Independent or The Sun…
SEO Life Guards: They Sent Beautiful Pilgrims After Me!
This is a really tough moment for me: I just can’t disagree with beautiful women. The case is even worse as it is not only a beautiful woman I have to disagree with now – she’s also a pilgrim! You…
Top 10 SEO Blogs That Do Not Yet Exist
My article “10 Steps to Success on the ‘Net Without SEO” over at Google Blogoscoped sparked some debate. Among others one guy asked me whether it makes sense to create “another SEO blog”. Of course it does not. Do not…
11 Examples of SEO 2
* Why explain what something is when you can give examples of it? Here is a list of SEO 2 examples in no particular order. Just follow the links to read about the actual examples of SEO 2! * (CC…
Multiplayer Word Association Game
Human Brain Cloud is a “multiplayer word association game” that I am addicted to for some days now. I am not the only one as their servers experience outages again and again. Via Google Blogoscoped.
How to Automate SEO Using WordPress
Before WordPress most people had to perform basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tasks. They needed so-called: “onpage optimization”. “search engine submission” “manual link building” Now you automate SEO using WordPress. Hallelujah! Want more details? See below! WordPress Let’s You Focus…
Link Bait Sucks – People Are Not Fish
* Are you trying to hook people to make them link to your site? You suck! OK, link bait sucks predominantly as a term but not completely as a tactic. There are certain aspects of link bait that really make…
The Only 5 SEO 2.0 Blogs You Need
* There are numerous of SEO blogs out there. Most of them stick in the past though and focus predominately on technology and meeting Google’s demands. With SEO 2.0 the world of search engine optimization has substantially changed. Only a…
DoFollow: Spread Link Love
* SEO 2 is about link love. Or should I say Love of Links (LOL!)? Anyway, when I started out on this blog I installed a fabulous “dofollow” plugin for WordPress. It deleted the so called “nofollow” attribute WordPress added…
The Best SEO 2.0 Definitions
While the term SEO 2.0 has been used before I started this blog, those who already used it define it in various differing ways. There is no real consensus on the meaning. Instead of just adding my own definition of…
Why Use a Black and White WordPress Theme for Business Blogging?
* Why use a neutral black and white WordPress theme for your business blog? There are many reasons. Obviously when you take a look at books or newspapers you will realize that most of them use white paper and black…
