Popularity Comes From People When people want to get popular on the Web they often have the popularity itself as a goal. What’s wrong with that? In reality true popularity beyond fame is just a by-product of doing the right…
* This is a post about rocking like Elvis instead of being boring. You can skip the boring part about headlines that follows. You can jump right to the rock & roll part to find out how to rock like…
* Google has been sending out “unnatural links” warnings for quite some time now. At first the messages meant that you got penalized on Google search and thus you potentially lost your rankings and traffic. Then Google started sending out…
I banned Google on my blog in 2012. Why? Isn’t it ironic for a self proclaimed SEO (as in “search engine optimization”) blog to ban Google? Let me tell you the whole story below! The enthusiastic start of this blog…
* In the past I have written repeatedly about the need to find your peers and to work together with them for the benefit of all parties involved. On the Web it’s not about competing with 7 billions of people….
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* Sometimes I see stupid blogging mistakes that are so fundamental that they render a corporate blog useless. At the same time it’s often easy to fix many company blogs once you know what to do! It’s nothing I make…
With so called IFTTT applets you can engage the world without moving a finger. “What are IFTTT applets?” you might ask. IFTTT is an acronym for “if this then that”. It’s a service that allows cross-site programming of multiple other…
* How positive SEO works Last time I defined what I consider to be positive SEO. Also I went into detail to explain my concept of Google Parkour. How does it work? You link out to your “competitor” in case…
Pinterest? You are doing it wrong! OK, I admit it, I have been using Pinterest for many years already. Yet I haven’t done any “marketing” over there. I just used it like a normal person would. By now I have…
Many words hide things! In linguistics we call such terms euphemisms. Euphemisms are often made up words that are meant to hide the real (in most cases negative) meaning of existing terms. Often the terms used are also real words…
During Nazi or Stalinist rule it was matter of life and death whether you were support the bloody regime or speaking out against it. Even trying to subvert it without speaking out publicly ended up fatal in most cases. Nowadays…
Are you interested in link building? Yes, that’s what you think. In reality you need something else though: linkable assets! Let me explain. How? As an independent consultant who hasn’t dozens of employees to do his work. The Han Solo…
* Negative SEO Nightmare In recent years so called “negative SEO” has been one of the most written about topics in the search marketing industry and beyond. Luckily only a few major publications have covered the topic or even used…
* Does blogging success mean you have to become a superstar? Do you need millions of followers? Is this how successful blogging for money actually works? Is it about fame or notoriety? Not really. The superstar blogging approach may have…
* You may already know blogs like Moz, Search Engine Land or SEMrush. Some people need even more content to read though. I’m here to help! Thus I have compiled a list of lesser known or not yet popular aka…
This is a contribution by Ryan Woolley, Vice President of Client Services, Response Mine Interactive. I added some emphasis and text formatting here and there. When we’ve reached our 10-year mark at RMI it’s hard to believe! Many of us…
* Over the years Eric Schmidt – formerly CEO and now chairman of Google – has been known for giving some intriguing insights into Google, the Internet and the future of technology. Some of his remarks were very controversial to…
* Getting clients as an SEO is a no brainer in a way, still many people struggle at the beginning it seems. One day I answered a question on Quora: “How do I get more SEO clients?” The person who…
Fresh Egg is a “digital search agency” from the UK. It’s based in Worthing, West Sussex. I have been following Fresh Egg ever since I was first contacted by one of its most renown employees, the now deceased Jaamit Durrani….
