Quality Sites Are the New Links and Santa Exists

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According to Google and Search Engine Land the decades old practice of link building has been replaced by “building quality sites” back in 2013.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

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

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!

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

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?

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

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…

Simplicity

Simplicity

* Simplicity is the ultimate (form of) sophistication – Leonardo da Vinci When it comes to design or self improvement – two topics I follow in my free time – simplicity is widely accepted as the path to success. When…

Dangerous Links: Why & How Google Wants to Abolish Hypertext

Dangerous Links: Why & How Google Wants to Abolish Hypertext

* Are links unnatural or even dangerous? The Web is built upon so called hypertext. Why is hypertext called hyper in the first place? Isn’t it just text published on the Internet? The hyper-aspect stems from hyperlinks. It’s not because…

How to Kill Pandas and Penguins but NOT People

How to Kill Pandas and Penguins but NOT People

* This post is not about killing cute animals. I’m not just an ethical SEO, I’m also vegan. It’s about SEO for the people. When it comes to search a Panda and a Penguin are different types of Google updates…

When Will Google Sunset Search?

When Will Google Sunset Search?

* One day the most important topic on the Internet was the unexpected demise of Google Reader. It was a popular tool to read and share content from blogs by subscribing to their so called feeds. Why did it matter?…

The Best Free Feed Readers for Windows, Mac and Linux

The Best Free Feed Readers for Windows, Mac and Linux

Do you look for a feed reader? This is a list of those I think are the best ones. These feed readers work on Windows, Mac and Linux. The Web-based feed readers also work on mobile devices without the need…

Billions of Sites Subject to Manual Penalty by Google

Billions of Sites Subject to Manual Penalty by Google

Google recently released an “interactive infographic” titled “how search works”. I ignored it until Barry Schwartz convinced me to take a second look. The infographic starts with the number of “30 trillion individual pages” Google has in its index. Later…

Is Blogging a Good Career Choice for You? How to Find Out

Is Blogging a Good Career Choice for You? How to Find Out

* Is blogging a good career choice for you? Is it even worth it? You can blog like you go to work. Then it’s like a 9 to 5 job. You can blog with passion. Then it’s like a love…

Training in Winter

Training in Winter

* I have started training parkour some time ago. It made me not only 200% healthier over the recent years – I feel 10 years younger by now. Parkour also inspired me in other areas of life. I’ve already coined…

What’s Your Message?

What’s Your Message?

The perhaps most important question when you publish is “what’s your message?” or in layman’s terms: what do you want to say? The problem with the ongoing “content is king” and “content marketing” hype is that it focuses on the…

Why Short Posts Beat Long Form Content

Why Short Posts Beat Long Form Content

* In recent years a new kind of debate has been taking place online. It’s about content length. The longer the better it seems. Why? The main point of the content length debate is that – let me summarize it…

SEO 2.0 Goes Responsive Web Design with Origin

SEO 2.0 Goes Responsive Web Design with Origin

SEO 2.0 goes responsive web design with the free WordPress theme Origin by AlienWP. I kept my last theme for about 5 years by now and would even have sticked with it but it didn’t display properly on smartphones and…

Advanced Social Networking Techniques for Productivity and Popularity

Advanced Social Networking Techniques for Productivity and Popularity

When you work in blogging, social media or search you probably know what I mean: You got to be an Internet addict and to socialize online all the time to become even modestly popular. What about the productivity though? Doesn’t…