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"SEO is B*LLS**T"

itsblitz asked 4 years ago
Ok sorry for the language and i dont actually agree with this statement but i found myself repeatedly saying this on the weekend during a meeting/dayout/pub crawl/ with a very nice chap from the mobile gaming industry who took me to see the rubgy. Well i basically kept saying this along with “seo is dead” because it seems you cant do anything these days without google trying to catch you out and penalise you, and i settled by saying “im only working on my on-page seo from now on” well thats seems to also be to much for google with the new algorithm due to hit in the next few weeks, take a look at this
Too Much SEO? Google

shall we all just give up nowhno:

20 Answers
allfreechips answered 4 years ago
Just work on great content, seo will follow and i think that is what they are saying. Sites with 40% keyword density and broken english to stuff them in, 900 links with that anchor text and the other 70 links are natural deserve to get hit.

JillO answered 4 years ago
Wow… itsblitz, I totally understand your frustrations. It just almost seems that you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t…

I’m just confused… how are they defining if a site is “overly search engine optimized”???

rmeeuwsen answered 4 years ago
I’m glad the quesiton that sparked the ‘over op’ comment was about the ‘mom and pop shop ‘ competing against the big $$.

“mom and pop” may not be to savvy but they usually have ‘heart’ and a solid product. That sounds like the google I want them to be (instead of the view as money grubbing business people).

Anyway, I hope that also means the domain age does not have to be a main criteria for good ranking – otherwise I’d beat out facebook (a newish site comparatively speaking).

JillO answered 4 years ago
@Play 237754 wrote:

According to semrush facebook is getting almost 300,000,000 search visits per month..
Seems to be ranking for millions of keywords..

You are totally right on… And now what’s happening with all of the algorithm updates in that Social Media is playing an even bigger part in boosting SEO.

And… IMO… that’s why Google is putting a stronger precedence in Google +. Sites that are getting more +1’s are getting a boost in PR.

rmeeuwsen answered 4 years ago
@bingoadvantage 237753 wrote:

Facebook doesn’t really rank for anything competitive other than “facebook” does it?

Doesn’t matter if it does or not.
Traffic is traffic – money is money – they got both.

And so does google.

They both have a product that works and people use.

What a ‘different’ world it would be without a huge facebook type site!
(in comparison, myspace stinks).

bingoadvantage answered 4 years ago
Sure, with over 500 million “active” users and how many just type facebook in the search bar to get there. Not to mention all the George McSomename ultra non-competitive keywords.

Play answered 4 years ago
@bingoadvantage 237753 wrote:

Facebook doesn’t really rank for anything competitive other than “facebook” does it?

According to semrush facebook is getting almost 300,000,000 search visits per month..
Seems to be ranking for millions of keywords..

bingoadvantage answered 4 years ago
Facebook doesn’t really rank for anything competitive other than “facebook” does it?

fonzi answered 4 years ago
It not just facebook. Have a look at google.com. They fail almost every metric yet they’re Google.

itsblitz answered 4 years ago
@rmeeuwsen 237643 wrote:

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Anyway, I hope that also means the domain age does not have to be a main criteria for good ranking – otherwise I’d beat out facebook (a newish site comparatively speaking).

funny you mention facebook, im reading an seo book by danny dover(was lead seo at seomoz) and he explains that facebook was(and still is) is so poorly setup seo wise and allowing google to crawl it that google had to make changes to it bot just for facebook