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> The word SEO “kind of sounds like spam when you say it today,” said Lenssen, in a slightly affected voice. “But that was not how it started.” That is not my
by karaterobot 3y ago
> The word SEO “kind of sounds like spam when you say it today,” said Lenssen, in a slightly affected voice. “But that was not how it started.”
That is not my recollection. I was blogging at the time they're talking about, and I think the first time I heard about SEO was in the context of trying to get your site ranked higher than everybody else. I grant that the techniques for early SEO came out of good, semantic-web intentions, but I feel like the time between them being implemented and the time they were misused for personal gain was like 3 minutes, max.
- chasd00 3y agoI remember SEO being all about keeping up with Google’s search algorithm tweaks and attempting to game it.
- paulddraper 3y agoRight? Version 1 SEO was to cram as many words as possible into the page. There's a reason why meta keywords attribute has been useless. For years [1] [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/meta/name https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/me...
- msla 3y agoEarly early SEO was cramming keywords into the bottom of the page with a foreground color the same as the background.
- qingcharles 3y agoI made my first million this way in the days of Altavista. 30,000 "Beanie Babies" can't be wrong.