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  • Is Your Site Mobile-Friendly or Just Pleasing Google?

    * The good news first: making a site mobile-friendly is easy. I have even converted my custom built and decade+ old main site to responsive web design myself. I managed to do it myself even though I don’t work as…

  • When I started out on the Web in the late nineties it was full of enthusiasm and limitless possibilities. It was about equality, opportunity and technological utopia. Today corporate interests run paramount with gatekeepers like Google, Facebook, Apple building their…

  • Many people still consider social media and search two different things. They will even say things like “SEO is dead and will be replaced by SMO”. In reality by now there is only social search. Most people do not log…

  • Given my track record some people might wonder: do I hate Google? It’s understandable, after all I wrote things like etc. back in the days. It’s true. I was critical of Google for many years. Yet do I really literally…

  • * BuzzFeed reports that “Traffic from Google to digital publishers dropped 30% over the past eight months.” based on traffic statistics from over 200 major media properties, among them BuzzFeed Time Huffington Post Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated Overall social media…