How to manage your daily routine? You need a schedule that improves productivity. Ideally it also makes you as happy as possible. How to accomplish that? Establish both physically and mentally healthy routines you follow every day. Healthy daily routines…
Orwellian Newspeak is everywhere nowadays. We speak about “collateral damage” “ethnic cleansing” “human resources” In search marketing we have also terms like these. You probably use them all the time! Are You Low or High Quality? Quality traffic is an…
Dear Readers! Are you still with me? Then say “Yeah!”. I can’t hear ya! Say “Yeaaah!!!”. All the ladies say “Heeeey!”. All the gents say “Ho, ho!” Why? I’m sick and tired! Not of blogging particularly. Or rather I’m sick…
“I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends” – Dalai Lama. Quite often I am subject to or part of heated debates online. Why? My social SEO ideas are often perceived as radical in business circles. On the…
Some bloggers argue that conventional SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is better than SMO (Social Media Optimization) for average small businesses. What’s the difference between search engine and social media optimization? As I do not advocate a pure either or…
Most people contribute to social media. We create so-called User Generated Content (UGC). Yes, I am talking about social media like Yet they are not outright idealistic endeavors built for the benefit of humanity. They are about business and making…
Success as most people define it (popularity) has one disadvantage: once it’s there, you take it for granted and get bored! With search, social media and blogging success becomes routine Then you start to look for a new frontier. Especially…
Hello world! My name is Tad Chef of the world famous SEO 2.0 blog. Now I present to you my first audio post*. I call it an „interview with myself“. Interviews are a vital way to make people disclose information…
Steampunk is a popular trend among what we call retro future, or future of the past. It’s very popular among the DIY crowd. Steampunk makes modern appliances look like they have been built in the 19. century or the Victorian…
If your blog isn’t getting as many visitors as you’d like, you need a quick lesson in how people read on the Web – they don’t, they scan. With millions of posts to choose from, people are looking for the…
This is my post #101 on SEO 2.0. When I started this blog, I had almost no clue what to write about, just some vague ideas. In fact I thought that SEO is such a boring topic and this niche…
What the heck is reverse psychology? It’s getting someone to do what you want by asking for the opposite! It can be a neat trick, if done well. You’re reading, right? So how can bloggers employ reverse psychology? Examples of…
There are plenty of specialized social media communities by now. Sadly most of them poorly customized applications with no users. Yet some of them really rock and provide great niche news with a real user community behind them. So here…
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…
In case you offer SEO for clients like I do, after some years you see several kinds of patterns. My nerves get sometimes a little strained with some and I guess I am not the only one. Other than that…
I was just playing around with Web analytics tools and happened to click on my Compete.com stats. There I realized that my traffic increased by 11259.7% (no mistake here) compared to a year earlier. In fact I did not believe…
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…
* Do you want to live in a future where this planet is still habitable? Yes, me too! How can we get there? Some people are writing about it all the time. Who are they? Bloggers! These are the best…
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…
Many bloggers write about the so called “bloggers block”. It happens when a blogger just doesn’t know what to write or lacks the motivation to do it. Do you lack blogging inspiration? Truly creative people do not experience bloggers block…
