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Some words are correct English yet nonetheless make your blog less trustworthy. Why? They have obviously negative or hidden meanings. In linguistics we call them connotations. These influence your readers inadvertently. Thus they damage trust in you and your blog…
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Google has more than 200 ranking signals or factors that determine the fate of websites on their search results. One day I was trying to assess the impact of stolen and otherwise copied content on my rankings here on the…
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One day I was awestruck when I visited the site of most important German blogging conference re:publica. Why was I so flabbergasted? The re:publica site sold links. Paid links are frowned upon by Google since 2007! Google has repeatedly asked…
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* More than once I had a lively argument on social media about “science”. Science-proponents are often very opinionated individuals. In some cases they were rather dogmatic. Especially those who are not scientists themselves fight others to convince them their…