How Can Websites about Boring Topics Succeed on Social Media?

How Can Websites about Boring Topics Succeed on Social Media?

* A reader asked a very important question in the comments! Indeed many people ask it: how can websites about boring topics succeed on social media? Indeed for many people it’s already an assumption that they can’t! The myth goes:…

How to Promote Yourself on Social Media? The Secret of SEO 2

How to Promote Yourself on Social Media? The Secret of SEO 2

* In this post I reveal the secret of SEO 2.0! By 2023 it’s rather known as “social SEO”. At the end of the day social media is about SEO too or SEO 2! It shows how to promote yourself…

Blog Suicide: Top 7 Title & Meta Tag Mistakes that Kill Your Blog

Blog Suicide: Top 7 Title & Meta Tag Mistakes that Kill Your Blog

* I’m shocked! Not only do bloggers waste time with meta tags although most of them are worthless for Google, bloggers hurt themselves using meta tags. It does not get better it seems it gets worse. Some people even commit…

When Wall Street Goes Down SEO Goes Up – How Come?

When Wall Street Goes Down SEO Goes Up – How Come?

Don’t read the papers first thing in the morning! Why that? News usually they ruin your day! Remember when Wall Street broke down and spawned the financial crisis? Banks crumbled and corporate capitalism turned to “state capitalism”! Why? It seemingly…

10 Scariest and Most Annoying Facts about Google Chrome

10 Scariest and Most Annoying Facts about Google Chrome

* When I wrote that Google Chrome is not a good idea the post got popular really fast and got debated a lot ever since. It didn’t help. Chrome became the dominant browser/spyware on the Web. I tested Google Chrome…

Why Google Chrome is a Bad Idea

Why Google Chrome is a Bad Idea

* Are you wondering “why Google is bad”? So do I! Now please choose one of the following: This post deals with the reasons why Google’s Chrome browser is a bad idea. Scroll to read the rest. To find out…

Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? It’s the Full Bottle

Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? It’s the Full Bottle

You certainly know the metaphor with the glass and the liquid. You don’t? Let me recount it: For some people the glass is half full and for others half empty. The trick is that both see the same glass and…

10 Google Operators for Advanced Search to Use Daily

10 Google Operators for Advanced Search to Use Daily

Are you still using Google for search? Yeah, I know. It sucks by now. Yet sometimes you have to. These advanced search operators can help you find what you know must be there. Using them you can unearth the hidden…

Google Suggest Effects on SEO, Search Usage and Business

Google Suggest Effects on SEO, Search Usage and Business

Who the hell is the Gossip Girl? Google Suggest offers users possible search queries based on the number of searches and results. When you start typing your search query Google suggest popular keywords or phrases to search for. Ever since…

How to Write for Subscribers: Rules of Advanced Blogging

Once this blog has reached a critical mass of over 1000+ subscribers it was time to change my writing and content creation strategy. Indeed I already adapted how I blog before I consciously decided to change my approach. Did my…

The Most Annoying Social Media Mistakes

The Most Annoying Social Media Mistakes

Over the years and on many different social media sites I have seen the same mistakes over and over again. Please! At least try not to repeat these…

10 Usability Sins that Make me Bounce at any Rate!

10 Usability Sins that Make me Bounce at any Rate!

Bounce rate is the number or rather percentage of people who leave your site almost instantly after taking a quick look. People do not click or perform any other action on your site when they bounce! Make sure to prevent…

When Yahoo Search Results Turned Sour

When Yahoo Search Results Turned Sour

SEO 2.0 rankings for the keyphrase [SEO 2.0] during summer 2008, a Raven chart. In mid 2008 Yahoo updated their Index to offer “more relevant results” which allegedly were “more like Google“. I was amazed to find out that the…

How (Not) to Pitch Me on Social Media

How (Not) to Pitch Me on Social Media

With more than 100k+ followers on Pinterest, around 500 connections on LinkedIn and 7k+ on Twitter I guess I’m quite popular by now. For many years my social media popularity was largely ignored by most people. I did not receive…

How Trust Made my Blog Triumph: 1000 Subscribers

How Trust Made my Blog Triumph: 1000 Subscribers

Dear reader, if you’d ask me what the single most important factor in the success of my blog is I would reply: trust! Trust is a tool that enables you to communicate and work together with people. In blogging like…

The 7 Ingredients of a Wildly Successful Blog Post

The 7 Ingredients of a Wildly Successful Blog Post

The following is a contribution brought to you by serial blogger, James Duthie from Online Marketing Banter. Two weeks earlier Tad threw his blog over to me to write a raunchy guest post. It turned out pretty nicely for everyone’s…

The Right Blog at the Right Time

The Right Blog at the Right Time

My blogging journey has been long and winded by now. I feel like looking back and analyzing. It may also help you to find out when it is the right time to start a blog. I started this blog here…

Sex, permission marketing and social media – The ultimate Ménage à trois

This naughty guest post is brought to you by James Duthie from Online Marketing Banter and is in no way endorsed by the fine people at SEO 2.0. What do sex, permission marketing & social media have in common? It…

What is Advanced SEO? Techniques You Need to Beat the Competition

What is Advanced SEO? Techniques You Need to Beat the Competition

What is advanced SEO? Do I really need it? You may wonder after reading some “advanced SEO techniques” posts. Most of those already assume you know! I’ll tell you below! What is the Advanced SEO Definition? OK. So by now…

The 10 Worst Findability Mistakes in UX + Web Development

The 10 Worst Findability Mistakes in UX + Web Development

UX (user experience) designers & Web developers often focus on and use All these things are perfectly OK usually… …unless they are executed at the expense of findability. Yet they often do. Here are examples of how to do it…