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Reader Poll: 13 Upcoming Posts to Choose FromYesterday

Dear regular readers, once again I have the problem of inspiration overflow. Thus I need your help.

I’m working on or having several posts on my mind already, it’s just a case of writing them down or even finishing them. As always in such a situation I have not enough time to publish them all so I depend on you to vote for the one you are most eager to read.

So here they are, 13 upcoming posts to choose from in my reader poll:

The Dark Truth About Bounce Rate Google Analytics is Hiding From You
The 10 Most Advanced Short URL Services for Twitter and Beyond
10 Indispensable WordPress Security Fixes to Protect Your Blog
101 Ways to Earn Money Online and Whether They Work
7 Rules of Ethical SEO You Ignore Probably as a White Hat
SEO 2.0 for Musicians and Artists: You don’t Need no Industry or Gallery
8 Social News 2.0 Sites: Digg and Reddit Are Sooo Obsolete
SEO Webware: 3 Optimization and Ranking Web Apps Compared
7 Outstanding Music Search Engines
Web Design for ROI: The Most Important Form Design Resources List
Top 8 Video Sites: It’s not Everything YouTube Out There
12 Great Bloggers Banned by StumbleUpon: What Did they Wrong?
5 Famous Blogs that Boycott Google Mistakenly or on

SearchWiki: Power to the People! Great News for SEO 2.0November 26

These are the Google results for SEO I want to see, but Google SearchWiki doesn’t want me to keep.

Most of you have noticed by now, Google has introduced a new set of features to its search called SearchWiki. It’s more of a “Giggle” though as a blogger joked, a combination of Digg-like social news and Google. To me it rather resembles StumbleUpon though.

Anyways: I haven’t posted about it yet because it does not work for me here. I can see the buttons enabling you to

vote up/down
hide

results as well as the other options like

commenting results
adding results
seeing comments and edits by others

Whenever I change or add something I can’t save it and my changes won’t be displayed next time I visit the results inspite of them being recorder correctly, I can see them checking out my history of edits.

Web Success Without SEO Works: How I Entered the Top 10 for SEO BlogNovember 21

When I started this blog, SEO 2.0, I proclaimed that SEO is dead and that you don’t need it anymore to succeed on the Web.

Moreover I proclaimed a new kind of SEO, SEO 2.0 which works almost completely different than what you know as SEO. Just 15 months later here I am ranking in the top 10 for seo blog at Google.com and I haven’t done 90% of the things that traditional SEO or SEO 1.0 consists of.

Obsolete SEO methods I haven’t used:

I have

not submitted this blog to any directories, not even blog directories
not exchanged links, neither reciprocal nor “3 way links” or anything like that
not optimized my meta tags, in fact I don’t have any, not even a description
not made any effort for traditional link building

Conventional SEOs still preach some of these tactics or come up with new useless ones like

“PageRank sculpting”
commenting on dofollow blo

Quick Guide to StumbleUpon Categorization and TaggingNovember 18

CC: Stumbling into happiness by szea.

One of the most annoying issues on StumbleUpon, both from an user and a webmaster perspective is the bizarre categorization system. SU mixes tags and categories in a way nobody really grasps.

You can only memorize them by using this flawed system in a trial and error way. After more than a year of SU practice I finally got it, but most people don’t. So I present to you a quick guide to StumbleUpon categorization and tagging.

Why bother in the first place? As I said before, StumbleUpon is channel surfing on the Web. It means that, metaphorically speaking, if you put celebs on the discovery channel or cars on the politics channel you won’t reach your desired audience.

CC: Stumble and fall by andreasnilsson1976.

Miscategorization means:

No traffic beside the initial push of a few hundred people

10 New Must Read SEO, Online Marketing and Web Development BlogsNovember 17

Recently I promised you in the 7 Things Obama Taught Me post to become less selfish and to promote other outstanding bloggers again like I did in the early days of SEO 2.0 quite often.

It took just a few days to compile a list of 10 new must read SEO, online marketing and web development blogs.

Here they are, I assume that most of them have started in 2008 so they aren’t even one year old:

I won’t describe them in depth as you will probably click yourself before reading anyways. All of those SEO, online marketing and web development bloggers have one thing common, a bright future. I know, I can spot trends like no other.

Did I miss some outstanding newcomer? I bet I have, I know there are some more buried in my bookmarks.