Why SEO is Dead Serious! Google is Kidding Me! #seohorrorstories

Why SEO is Dead Serious! Google is Kidding Me! #seohorrorstories

After writing about SEO for more than 15 years I finally accepted it: SEO is dead… seriously! I mean to say “SEO is dead serious” of course! Excuse my poor immigrant English! Now let’s return to the actual topic we…

Where to Buy Links? How to Get Link Juice? Do Follow SEO Advice!

Where to Buy Links? How to Get Link Juice? Do Follow SEO Advice!

Want to buy links for SEO? Do you hate the slow and reputable approach? Do you prefer the fast and furious path to link building? Then you are at the right place at the right time! Right here and now!…

The Google Search Algorithm in a Nutshell [2023]

The Google Search Algorithm in a Nutshell [2023]

What Is the Google Search Algorithm? By 2023 the Google search algorithm is  Sounds complicated? Yes, it is.  Thus we will simplify it and explain it in a nutshell. How Does the Google Search Algorithm Work? When Google started out…

Niche Keyword Research for Small Businesses [Free Tools]

Niche Keyword Research for Small Businesses [Free Tools]

Let’s face it! You’re not the owner of Amazon, Google or Wikipedia! Not even close! As a freelancer or small business you most probably optimize for a niche audience. Your website can’t compete with the behemoths of the Web!

How Embedding YouTube Videos on Your Blog Backfires

How Embedding YouTube Videos on Your Blog Backfires

Many bloggers add YouTube videos to their posts. Often the whole post consists of a video. Here are the most common ways how embedding YouTube videos on your blog backfires.

What rel=”nofollow UGC sponsored” Really Means – Not What it Says

What rel=”nofollow UGC sponsored” Really Means – Not What it Says

You know what the “nofollow” attribute does. It cripples hyperlinks … for Google.

Now we have more of those attributes! What do they really mean?

How to Optimize Your Website for Privacy to Gain More Business

How to Optimize Your Website for Privacy to Gain More Business

When it comes to online business: are you a creepy stalker invading people’s privacy for profit? Or do you optimize your website for privacy? Do you have dozens of trackers installed on your site?

25+ Shocking Remarks on Search & Social Media to Ruin the Holidays

25+ Shocking Remarks on Search & Social Media to Ruin the Holidays

It’s the holiday season again. Christmas and New Year’s Eve are always a time when we are confronted with real life. We can’t connect to Facebook all the time, tinkering with websites is frowned upon by partners, children and other…

10 SEO Myths that Make You Look Stupid

10 SEO Myths that Make You Look Stupid

One of the most popular ways to teach people about search engine optimization seems to be to point out what’s wrong about it. There are plenty of “SEO myths” posts out there and they get shared a lot. I usually…

SEO is Dead – PIG is the New SEO

SEO is Dead – PIG is the New SEO

* With another big wave of “SEO is Dead” posts appearing it was about time I added something to the debate again. Nowadays Google forces us to grant them access to private files like CSS stylesheets or JS scripts. Google’s…

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

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

* The good news first: making a site mobile-friendly is easy. I have 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 a…

6 Spam-Free Link Building Methods that Won’t Make Google Cry

6 Spam-Free Link Building Methods that Won’t Make Google Cry

* This is a post written by the team of freelance-seo.co.uk with a few suggested changes by myself. One day the Internet was shaken to its core by Google’s cry that guest blogging for SEO purposes is dead – to…

Google Sells Endorsements to SEO Agencies

Google Sells Endorsements to SEO Agencies

Last time I have written about Google on this blog I promised to be more positive about the search-monopolist mega-corporation advertising company. You know, it’s not easy for me after all the issues I had with Google. Nonetheless this time…

Guest Post by Matt Cutts on Spammy Link Building [Satire]

Guest Post by Matt Cutts on Spammy Link Building [Satire]

This is a guest post by Matt Cutts, Google’s “head of spam” by day and well known SEO blogger by night. I added some text decoration/formatting here and there to stress the main message and to improve readability. In my…

Do I Hate Google?

Do I Hate Google?

By now you might ask: do I hate Google? It’s no wonder, after all I write things like why and how to nofollow Google Google alternatives: search engines… are SEOs selling out to Google? etc. all the time it seems….

Why and How to Add nofollow When Linking Google Sites

Why and How to Add nofollow When Linking Google Sites

In one of my recent posts I threatened Google with symbolic retaliation for their ruthless attacks on webmasters and the open Web. My idea back then was still somehow metaphorical. I said I will “nofollow” Google that is devalue outgoing…

How to Spot a Fake Link Removal Request

How to Spot a Fake Link Removal Request

Are your links unnatural or do they grow on trees? When Google invented “unnatural links” by simply deciding that some links are unnatural while others are not they also created the problem of large scale “negative SEO“. Then they professed…

Hey Google! Sunset Your Unnatural Oral Action or I’ll Nofollow You

Hey Google! Sunset Your Unnatural Oral Action or I’ll Nofollow You

* Do you remember the days when “manual action” was something desirable and NSFW? Listening to Google spokespeople turns more bizarre with the years. They have come up with their own language to hide the sour facts of penalties faulty…

Questions to Ask Before Each Project Starts

Questions to Ask Before Each Project Starts

* So you are starting a new blog? Do you just consider buying a new domain? There are a lot of down to earth questions to ask! When? You have to ask the hard questions before you launch a website…

Free Traffic vs Gatekeeper Traffic

Free Traffic vs Gatekeeper Traffic

* Usually I prefer to speak about visitors not traffic as in people visiting your site. Why? The term “traffic” is too fuzzy. It fails to really explain what is going on on the Web. It’s a misleading metaphor when…