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Future Proof SEO Strategy: Real Life Link Building
* Over the years I have repeatedly expressed my belief that the only way to do proper SEO in a social media world is to forge relationships. I have never elaborated on it in a single post here on SEO...
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Is Positive SEO Possible? A Google Parkour Case Study
* Negative SEO Nightmare In the recent weeks 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...
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Positive SEO Example Campaign to Take Part in
* 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 where you link out to your competitor in case s/he...
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Why I Am Banning Google on my Blog
* I am banning Google on my blog. Why? Isn't it ironic for a self proclaimed SEO blog to ban Google? Let me tell you the whole story. When I started out this blog in 2007 I did not get any significant...
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How Do You Attract Visitors Instead of Traffic to Your Site?
* A few years ago I noted that there is a difference between traffic and visitors in an article dealing with a broader topic. Then in early January of 2011 I have described it in more depth. Today I'd...
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Non-Google Link Building for Search Emancipated Optimization
* It may be a surprise to you but link building has been thriving long before Google. When I joined the Internet and started publishing poetry online in 1997 Google didn't even exist. Many search...
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Ouch: Relationship Building is Not about SEO at All!
* It's official now: relationship building replaces link building in SEO. I've been preaching relationships for years as part of SEO 2.0 but now the approach arrived in the SEO mainstream. I'm glad it...
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Are You Really a Content Marketer or Just an SEO?
In recent months, especially after the so called Google Penguin update many people in the SEO industry not only increasingly embraced content marketing but they tried to join the bandwagon and rebrand...
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How Link Building Really Works These Days
* I do not write a lot about link building. When I do I try to expand the concept usually or at least question it. The problem with link building is that it doesn't go away. No matter how often I and...
View ArticleSEO 2.0 Ebook Coming Up: Table of Contents
The SEO 2.0 ebook is coming up. I'm writing it right now. I know I'm a bit late. I blog here for around 6 years now and I should have written and published an SEO 2.0 ebook 5 years ago. It's never too...
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How to Kill Pandas and Penguins but NOT People
* This post is not about killing cute animals. In search a Panda and a Penguin are different types of Google updates or rather penalties. In case you own a website or two I will help you deal with...
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The Best Acronyms to Replace SEO
* You have to admit: it didn't work out! Your quest to replace the stigma of SEO was futile until now! You wanted to practice internet marketing to no avail, you still just did keyword research, onsite...
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Broken Social Media: Anti-Social Sites vs Alternatives
* Some of the so called social media sites are broken and a waste of time. In fact they are not social at all, they are anti-social. So you not only waste your time using them you also get viciously...
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Case Study: The Value of a Blog Post
Sometimes when I tell business owners how much I charge for blog posts they tell me that it’s expensive. At the same time they would gladly throw that same amount and much more money at “drive by”...
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The Luxury Resort Type of Blog
* Ever since I have banned Google search on my blog I rely solely on direct, social media and other referral traffic. Oh, well, there is some search traffic from the likes of Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo...
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Content Can’t Heal AIDS
* Summary: Content is not a one size fits all solution, especially for small business owners who can’t afford to become publishers. When does content actually make sense and how? What else can SMBs do...
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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...
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SEO is Alive!
* When I started out this blog over 6 years ago I said what nowadays is almost a running gag: “SEO is dead“. So you could assume I am the most unlikely person to tell you that SEO is alive. Take a look...
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How to Spot a Fake Link Removal Request
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 to have the...
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The Only 7 WordPress Plugins Business Bloggers Need
* Serious, professional and business bloggers listen up! Forget all those top 100 WordPress plugins lists, those top 10 SEO plugins for WordPress compilations. I blog for several blogs now, at 3 of...
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