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…
SEO Test: How Does Personalized Search Work on Google?
For about three weeks I have performed a very simple SEO test to determine the influence of the newly introduced personalized search on Google. It allegedly works with cookies only and it personalizes your search results by default even when…
10 Google Social Search Optimization Techniques
The new by default personalized search by Google is a big paradigm shift in SEO. I’ve already written about the changes personalized search mean for blogging social media search engine optimization etc. I prefer to call it social search as…
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…
Authority and Trustrank
Yesterday I discovered the original Trustrank paper from 2004. Trustrank is a term coined by some Yahoo engineers to describe a new algorithm to determine relevant search results. The new thing about Trustrank is that it does not solely count…
Reasons to Regulate Google & Search
This article deals with the urgent need to regulate Google and proposes radical open source like transparency as a solution. Do we need to regulate Google? Yes, of course. We really have to regulate Google. The question is just how…
Outbound Links and SEO: Linking Out is a Ranking Factor and Benefits Your Site
* Do outbound links (also called outgoing links) matter for SEO (as in Search Engine Optimization)? Does Google count outbound links to determine your ranking on search? These are common questions publishers ask themselves. Finally Matt Cutts of Google has…
Inspiring Positivity in the SEO Industry
One of the greatest things about the international blogosphere is its self improvement and personal development part. You have lots of outstanding positivity spirituality productivity blogs out there. You don’t have them in German to such an extent. There are…
Search: 8 Reasons Why Wolfram Alpha is a Waste of Time and no Threat to Google
Wolfram Alpha is another overhyped “Google killer” on the block. It’s allegedly a search engine. Google killers usually die Do you remember the last few much hyped Google killers in the search arena? Not? Well, I do. Wikia has been…
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…
10 Christmas No-Nos for SEO Specialists to Avoid at all Costs
It’s this risky season again and many of us who optimize websites for search will have to endure humiliations we have to face each year. To lessen the impact of the Christmas SEO woes I compiled a list of 10…
The 10 Simplest Website Tweaks for Designers to Get More Clients
Are you a graphic, industrial or web designer? Do you want your website to look good? Do you ignore, dismiss or forget findability and usability? Well, I can help. Designers often do not implement the simplest website tweaks for more…
Social Search: Power to the People! Great News for SEO 2.0
[Update: Google’ SearchWiki has been discontinued. Some features have been later adopted for new services like Google+] Above you see the Google results for SEO I wanted to see when Google introduced social search features called SearchWiki, but Google didn’t…
Web Success Without SEO Works: How I Entered the Top 10 for SEO Blog
When I started this blog – SEO 2.0 – I proclaimed that SEO is dead and that you don’t need it anymore to succeed on the Web. Moreover I proclaimed a new kind of SEO, SEO 2.0 which works almost…
SEO for Humans is Not About Google and “Content is King”
Spider, really your preferred audience? * For years Google has been preaching building websites for humans not spiders. Nonetheless in reality Google still relies on website owners to make their pages spider-friendly. To be honest I don’t like big Google…
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…
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
* 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…
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…
