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The issue here is that it's still really easy to game SERPs, it just takes more money to do so and a willingness to step in gray hat territory. Search plus you
by chrisguitarguy 15y ago
The issue here is that it's still really easy to game SERPs, it just takes more money to do so and a willingness to step in gray hat territory. Search plus your world has the potential to make it very hard if not impossible to game SERPs, however.
The takeaway from the infographic should really be that Aaron Wall (of seobook.com) runs a business that teaches (white hat?) SEO to small business owners. It's in his best interest to make SEO seem incredibly complex, difficult, and full of dangers. Which is relatively true: effective SEO is hard to do. Wall, like any good SEO, keeps up with algorithm changes. He's a smart guy, and he's most likely figured out how to overcome all of the challenges in that infographic (for $X.XX he'll show you!). It's linkbait. And great inbound marketing.
Also, Aaron Wall is a very outspoken critic of Google. There's a post every week or two on his blog about Google's ethics (or lack thereof). It's really fascinating stuff, well worth a read [1].
1. http://www.seobook.com/blog http://www.seobook.com/blog
- asd344335345 15y agoBeing knowledgable in internet marketing, the first thing I spotted was that the context of this article is to be an advertisement at hackernews et al. I am tired of "marketers" posting content here, and I suggest that we should downvote the post and upload the image at an imagehost.
- bad_user 15y agoSo you're tired of "marketers", yet you think the image has some value, so you want to rip it off the origin website to remove the attribution? I'm guessing you're also vehemently against copyright laws. Also, with a new account you're talking about advertisement at hackernews and being tired of marketers posting content here? I'm just fascinated by how 80% of all complaints about the degrading quality of HN come from new users.
- redthrowaway 15y agoTheir username looks like random keyboard mashing, so it's likely a regular who doesn't want the comment associated with their usual profile.
- bad_user 15y agoOr maybe a username that got (hell) banned. And while I get the need for anonymity, people really need to grow some balls and stand-up by their beliefs.
- asd344335345 15y agoMake it a habit to periodically refresh the username with a login from http://openid.anonymity.com/<name> http://openid.anonymity.com/<name>
- resnamen 15y agoAWESOME!
- asd344335345 15y agoThat infographic is taken from seobook.com which in itself might be stolen from somewhere else...
- bad_user 15y agoI wasn't paying attention ... then a direct link to seobook.com would be better. I actually hate it when people don't submit the original source.