How to Optimize Websites for People? Use the FIRE UP Approach!
How do you optimize websites for people? I mean actual readers! Especially those who are suffering from chronic attention shortage? You need to make websites or in short “fire up“. “fire someone up – Fig. to motivate someone; to make…
utm_source=crap: How Google Analytics Breaks Links + UX
* Did you notice how dirty some website addresses are? They are full of crap! Why? Over the years Google – the dominant analytics provider on the market – and marketers have increasingly inserted it! In this post I explain…
SEO Has Evolved – It’s About Popularization Now
* SEO is not the alpha and omega! It has evolved to become more than just search engine optimization. Also it’s not “just marketing”. You can optimize things without selling them on a market. SEO has progressed and advanced in…
Explaining SEO Made Simple
* Why Explaining SEO Matters What Does SEO Mean? Yes, it’s Search Engine Optimization (originally)! Yet what does that really mean? Fixing websites for Google? Do you still wonder what SEO is about? This article will help you. You already…
Does SEO Make You Sick?
* A shocking survey has yielded the following results: one in ten Americans considered HTML to be a sexually transmitted disease. This sounds funny, doesn’t it? Now consider one of the other survey questions. It also asked what SEO means….
Simple Ways to Optimize Your Site
Sometimes it’s not about the huge website relaunch. Amazon and other market leaders only add incremental changes without ever fully redesigning their websites. Yet such an approach often leads to feature creep! What then? Clutter due to growing sites Yes,…
SEO is Alive!
When I started out this blog in 2009 years I said what nowadays is almost a running gag: “SEO is dead“. You could assume I am the most unlikely person to tell you that SEO is alive. Take a look…
Connecting People for Fun and Profit with Minimal Effort
* In the past I already focused on influencers: Who are they? How did they get there? Who cares! At the end I concluded that most of us are not influencers by design. Today I want to focus on what…
Idiotically Simple Ways to Make Your Crap Content Stand Out
Everybody knows you have to create great content to survive so you have to compete with millions of others who are creating and promoting content.
How to Remove utm_source & Other Parameters From Your URLs
Have you noticed some unwanted crap being added to website addresses? Yes, I’m talking about utm_source crap and similar website address pollution! utm_source crap is usually merely annoying and distracting but it can even break websites. Yet most of the…
How to Get Links on SEO 2 and Other Blogs
* As both blogger and SEO am I aware of both sides of “link building”. Over the years I got lots of spammy comments from low quality “blog commenting services”. I often had to delete comments right away. I rather…
Why People Hate Ads and Love SEO
* I hate ads. I’m not the only one. Most people hate annoying ads. People hate ads on the Web and block them using a plethora of tools. They also hate outdoor ads and TV ads. They hate them we…
Image SEO for Photographers and Other Visual Artists
Photographers and other visual artists have a magnificent tool to show off their work these days, the Internet. Everybody loves great photos and artworks so they spread basically by themselves. Still there is a big difference between being successful on…
12 Effects Google Personalized Search Has on the Web
Image: Personal Preference by Kevin Dooley. Google gets personal: Now everybody will get personalized search results based on their search habits in the past unless they opt out in a tedious process. Most people won’t opt out or even notice…
Google Indexes Twitter Links
How to get indexed by Google? Just use Twitter. This is no joke. I ran a test on Twitter to find out whether Google indexes Twitter links and surprise, surprise it does in certain cases. Of course Google can’t ignore…
User and Search Friendly URL Design for Multi-Language Websites in 4 Easy Steps
* What an overwhelming headline! User and search friendly URL design for multi-language websites? What are you talking about? Let me explain. Then I’ll introduce to you the 4 easy steps you need to follow. One of the basic best…
Effective Moving Content to a New Domain Tutorials
A buddy of mine asked what else he should you look after when moving content to a new domain or blog beyond using an indispensable 301 redirect. As long as you use a 301 you are already pretty safe when…
Why Image Optimization is Important for Blogs
This time, instead of explaining why image optimization is important for blogs I will simply demonstrate it. One day I checked my search traffic from Google. These were the top 12 search referrers for that month on SEO 2.0: Search…
SEO 2.0 Reality Check: What Works?
* I’ve been writing for this blog and popularizing SEO 2.0 for 15 years! Yes. It’s time to review some of my theories and predictions. I have promised you a new era. Did it really arrive? Did SEO 2.0 turn…
The Best Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration
What is image bookmarking and how can it improve your overall creativity? It’s simple. You view amazing images by others and get inspired! Indeed you can use image bookmarking sites like Pinterest for daily inspiration. There is a steady stream…
