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…
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…
Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes
* URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your website address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there should be! Nonetheless I see the same mistakes all over the…
Internal Google Rules Governing the Corporation
Imagine your business depends on a black box corporation like Google! What then? You have to learn to read between the lines. Thus I prepared an unofficial list of rules that govern the corporation. You may not hear about them…
SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) Demand Skyrockets
Google Trends is a wonderful tool to find out what the market really demands. One problem is ambiguity though. It happens when a term means more than one thing. It happens to acronyms quite often. I compared SEM to SEO…
How to Get Content and Earn Credibility with Old News
* Who wants to read yesterday’s news? This might sound like a rhetoric question but it’s not: Google users or searchers want to read old news. People actually seek out your old, even archaic content right now. What do they…
SEO Superstition: Ranking Signals Are Not One Google Juice
There is no hidden Google juice that miraculously determines the ranking in Google’s results. Google’s “search advocate” John Mueller flatly ignores questions that even mention the term “link juice”. Yet why is it still so widely used? Is it just…
Simple Ways to Use Universal Search to Appear on Top of Google
Back in the days search was about the proverbial “10 blue links” that lead to actual results on third party websites. Not anymore. What happened? Universal Search! In this post I will show you some simple ways to use Universal…
The Day Google PageRank Died and Why
Do you remember Google’s PageRank named after co-founder Larry Page? It was the original Google algorithm and also a prominent metric. Maybe you have seen the little green bar in the Google toolbar? For many years that bar represented PageRank…
Best Search Engine According to Google
Google needs SEO to rank in Google! Why? Let me explain. I read numerous posts about the Google optimization parody “What if Google had to design their user interface for Google?”. It’s both funny and sad and that’s why the…
20 Ways to Get Legit Paid Links Without Getting Penalized
Getting links is like getting laid. You can pay for sex or you get it for free. When you are very attractive you have no problems. You have to pay when you are ugly boring shallow Still there are lots…
Blogging Advice: How to Tell Google that You Blog
Google and its bots are stupid. They are not C3PO or R2D2 from Star Wars! They’re morons! Saying it in less offensive words: Google is disabled. It’s the proverbial Blind Five Year Old. Despite all the hyped “artificial intelligence” Google…
100+ Feed Subscribers in 10 Weeks! How to Count Them?
The SEO 2.0 blog reached 100 feed subscribers after roughly just ten weeks of existence. At least 100. How do you count them? Unless you have a newsletter or “list” and they subscribe by mail it’s hard to find out….
My Google List of Demands
Some of my favorite SEO bloggers started a meme and one of them asked me to jump on the bandwagon and devise a Google wish list. I like them so I wanted to take part. On the other hand I…
Stop Link Building! Links vs Traffic
Do you think that link building is the most important part of traffic generation nowadays? You may be right when you refer to website optimization for Google. You have other options though! Link building or traffic generation? In the…
10 Reasons Why SEO Haters Are Plainly Wrong
It happened again! A verbal attack because of what I do for a living or others assume I do. Yeah, someone hates me because I have SEO in the title of my blog. This time it happened on a social…
