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Good SEO is no SEO
Posted on October 19, 2006 - Filed Under Tips |
I was going to title this post “Be scared, be VERY scared” but thought that might be a bit over the top.
Last year at this time I decided to combine something I did in real life with a correctly worded blog post. The above image is from my home and garden blog, it’s a background image I made with my son for Halloween. The page is currently getting from 1-2 thousand hits per day from Google, Yahoo and MSN image searches. It also was on page #1 of Google for “Halloween Background” until I edited the page a couple times (doh!).
Todays Lesson:
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Everything I have ever made on a whim has done extremely well in the search engines.
Everything that I think too much about and combine things I have learned in SEO forums gets very weak results.
Good SEO is no SEO
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October 19th, 2006 at 7:53 am
Hmmm…
I think the real problem here is ‘thinking too much’ about SEO.
Create something remarkable and authentic, and it will get links.
Create something that’s in demand, and you’ll be doing SEO.
Do both, and you’re in business.
October 19th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Well, smart SEO is invisible, as much as smart usability or marketing is. Everything just works when everything is done properly.
That’s the point, Ahmed. Providing value is the key.
October 22nd, 2006 at 7:32 am
After a few years of chasing links and listening to the “experts” it has become clear to me the key is to write.
Taking the time to write a quality essay verus a 3-500 word piece of crap is the key to longterm success.
What came first content or the link? No doubt in my mind that many links in the future will be devalued, but how can you devalue quality content?
October 22nd, 2006 at 7:45 am
Yes indeed Sam and offering a little something fun for your website guests goes a long way.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
ive noticed this as well
November 12th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
I think that you are so close it’s scarry… Good SEO is building for the user, the engines will find it and, more importantly, you will stay at the top! (because you deserve it)
December 29th, 2006 at 7:16 am
I guess good SEO would be just following the guidelines laid down by the search engines and avoid indulging in black hat SEO techniques. Also important is to have patience to yield SEO results.
March 12th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
If you build it, they will come. If you SEO it, they will come, and be bored to tears. ;-)
That’s not exactly fair though as the “SEO’d” sites that bore people to tears are not much better than MFA (Made For Adsense) sites, peoples’ goals being misplaced.
At the same time, the “SEO’d” sites seem to be done by people doing maybe the right things for the wrong reasons and ending up leaving the visitor to their site totally out of the equation.
Even though one reads in blog after blog and webmasters forum after webmasters forum that one should build a site for humans, most people seem more interested in short term results and end up not realizing the no SEO can actually be good SEO.
Also, sometimes that hardest thing one can do to try to improve a given situation is, nothing.