Comments on: The Pitfalls of SEO – SEO Simplified

By: ikinci el eşya

ikinci el eşya — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:26:09 +0000

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By: Earn Money Quickly

Earn Money Quickly — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:23:28 +0000

I will have to disagree with your on this one, the reason is because I don’t know if you remember when Bush was president, but so many bloggers linked to his biography with the link miserable failure and even though that wasn’t relevant to the site his page was still number 1 on google for that search phrase, so there are ways that links can over power relevancy.

By: Jane Sayers

Jane Sayers — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:09:10 +0000

One of the biggest pitfalls is to get too many of the latest get traffic quick programs. You need to choose maybe 4 of 5 ways that can get traffic and test them out to find the most effective.

By: Vintage hood ornaments

Vintage hood ornaments — Sun, 30 May 2010 18:17:55 +0000

For us to succeed with what we are doing we have to build a team good enough to meet simultaneously with big goals! Nice post! he has provided readers with useful information about SEO. The concepts are well defined!

By: Funny street signs

Funny street signs — Sun, 30 May 2010 18:07:09 +0000

I agree that is way too easy to get lost in all the SEO “noise” about what is important this week about the latest trends and fashions linkbuilding SEO. the bottom line to achieving rankings is developing a site that has real substance, it is useful to readers of business, and a lot of links coming to it from relevant sources. I like the way the formula provided above … nice and simple.

By: Сергей

Сергей — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:19:44 +0000

thanks. I agree with this formula because it really operates

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By: techpage

techpage — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:52:09 +0000

very good point.I agree

By: qtp training

qtp training — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:20:53 +0000

Great informative post about link link building. I also agree with you that relevant, quality backlinks are most important in link building.

By: fery

fery — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:35:05 +0000

i am absolutely agree with your opinion

By: Top Wordpress Themes

Top Wordpress Themes — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:41:00 +0000

haha, this is probably the best way I have seeing SEO explained. I agree that people tend to focus way too much about every detail of search engine optimization when they need to focus more on their actual content and “authority”.

By: David

David — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:06:36 +0000

agreed with you…Thanks.

By: Computer Tricks

Computer Tricks — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:22:31 +0000

I certainly have the content element sorted out but unfortunately the links element is incredibly annoying and I feel like a spammer whenever I try to build the intial back links to get me on the radar

By: Kurt Guntner

Kurt Guntner — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:17:14 +0000

I love the breakdown! I’m not the best communicator and I always get caught up in the details when I’m trying to explain how SEO works to potential clients. Great insight.

I also agree with previous poster about trying to share SEO info with the PR teams. No matter how many times I try to explain it, they still don’t seem to get it.

By: Video Production Cleveland

Video Production Cleveland — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:56:58 +0000

Helpful article, I am researching new ways to optimize my website for video production services I provide and this post was helpful. This is off topic but I heard someone mention code to text ratio? What does that mean???

By: John

John — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:40:34 +0000

That’s probably the most basic breakdown of SEO I’ve ever seen – Nice!

By: Chotrul SEO and Web Design

Chotrul SEO and Web Design — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:32:03 +0000

I would tend to agree that certain things in SEO are definitely measurable – through Google Analytics for example. However, ranking is sometimes not the best example to use here of a KPI, as it is getting more and more variable per searcher, especially in the light of increased personalised search from Google. More important perhaps is numbers of visitors to the site, after all, visibility is one thing, visitors is to their site is more of what the company requires.

Beyond that, conversions are more important still, whether that is a sale, or something like an email or signup. This is the real nitty gritty. And measuring what changes bring about the best conversions rates is where it really makes a difference to the bottom line.

And all of this is measurable, for sure

By: ymm0t

ymm0t — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:47:05 +0000

Well, I agree with the simple formula there.. Thanks!

By: Curt N

Curt N — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:25:03 +0000

I agree SEO is a large learning curve that will take time to complete, thanks for the advice to help me avoid these “pitfalls” in the future! Also great explanation, easy to understand.

By: Gianpiero Rondinelli

Gianpiero Rondinelli — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:09:00 +0000

I have a computer support business and find myself at a big disadvantage since I am a tech not a writer. A lot of my competitors have managed to post hundreds of pages about city neighborhoods and other non-business related pages that have resulted in top listings for many keywords. It seems unfair that such references appear to improve the keyword relevance for competitive searches. Just my 2 cents.

By: Nick @ Brick Marketing

Nick @ Brick Marketing — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:07:29 +0000

Then you get into a whole new discussion of what authority is and what isn’t. I think with SEO you just have to dive in and get your feet wet and see what works and what doesn’t.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:35:40 +0000

I like the simplicity of your formula:

Content = Relevance
Links = Authority
Authority + Relevance = Rankings
Rankings = Market Share

I came up with a similar formula a few months ago. In retrospect, I probably could have left out ‘link popularity’ from the equation. In any case, mine formula for measuring link quality (link below):

Link Popularity + Relevance + Trust =
Valuable backlink
… & Valuable backlinks = Ranking Opportunity

‘The ABC’s of how backlinks help SEO’ is just below the fold:
– Backlinks & SEO
Hoping to get your feedback!

By: Ben King

Ben King — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:49:23 +0000

Finally an explanation I understand (I’m a bit of an SEO newbie)… One thing I do like about SEO is the fact that it is 100% measurable… You type in a keyword and see exactly where you are… brilliant…

By: Blog Ideas

Blog Ideas — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:57:48 +0000

This is as simple as it gets and I like that, good way to put it. So many people get very in-depth about reading all there is about SEO and I’m not trying to say you don’t need SEO knowledge but people tend to waste a lot of time reading, surfing the net and getting distrated when they could be building links or working on their own content.

By: Military Shadow Boxes

Military Shadow Boxes — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:46:26 +0000

Very good points. I’ve been working with a company on getting their PR department to be more search engine aware and at times it can be frustrating.

Since they are so used to doing things the way they always have, the second I turn my back I see a press release go out with no optimization. I keep stressing the missed opportunities, but I guess old habits die hard.