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…
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…
Is Commenting on Dofollow-Blogs a Link Building Strategy?
* This post is about commenting on so called “dofollow-blogs”. Does commenting as a link building strategy make sense? Spoiler alert: it doesn’t in most cases. Yet it can. Let me explain why! The Bad Habit of SEO Worst Practices…
The Most Successful SEO Bashings in Web History
One of the best performing linkbait ideas on the Web today is SEO bashing. It’s an ugly but very successful way of gaining links at the expense of others. It seems the less substance an anti-SEO claim has the more…
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…
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
* 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?
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
Top 10 Benefits of Speaking at Search Engine Conferences
One day instead of working I went to SES Hamburg (a leading search engine conference, a side note for the uninitiated) to have some fun. I showed off my fair trade Panama hat (yes, I tricked you, I don’t actually…
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…
Modern Online Forums Alternatives
Are online forums still needed? In my opinion: No. At least not in the way they work now or rather don’t. I stopped using online forums many years ago. Why? People on forums in general were often inaccurate rude problem…
10 Coding Guidelines for Perfect Findability and Web Standards
Perfect findability and Web standards can be achieved with the same means when it comes to coding. Thus I compiled a very simple list for you to improve your overall website and content findability. These are 10 coding guidelines for…
Top 10 Reasons Why SEOs Fail on Social Media
* Many search engine optimizers are still stuck in the past. These old school practitioners fail to adapt. They struggle with the new social media environment and attempt to apply rules of the legacy Web to the new environment. To…
7 Completely Insane Black Hat SEO 2.0 Techniques
Most average people assume that SEO is bullshit, evil and spam. Maybe it’s even a sexually transmitted disease! Who am I to disagree? A poet? Why not ride the wave instead? Why not go black hat? Wearing a Black Hat…
Findability: New and Better SEO?
Findability is a term that has become a buzzword for a while due to a book called Building Findable Websites by Aarron Walter. I’m always on the lookout for new concepts and innovation. Thus I made a little time to…
Semantic SEO: Your Website is a Goldmine with On-Site SEO 2
* You think on-page SEO is dead? It hasn’t even begun! To be clear, your website is a goldmine and you haven’t even started to dig for the gold. On my SEO 2 blog I have covered blogging, social media…
