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Ask HN: What do you do for SEO?
Curious to hear how other people think about SEO. What are you guys doing for SEO today and when do you start worrying about SEO? Are you using agencies, doing it yourself, etc.?
- hcarvalhoalves 13y agoThe only "SEO strategy" that works is being relevant so the relevant people link to you and having a technically correct site (parseable HTML, appropriate status codes). Not even keywords on domains or URLs matter as much anymore after Google's Panda. Agencies are snake oil vendors and a great way to waste time and money.
- smartwater 13y agoAgencies know more than your average joe. They aren't snake oil at all. It's a thriving industry.
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- 27182818284 13y agoThe problem is that 10 years ago, the cutting edge marketing companies did SEO. Now, _EVERY_ marketing company does SEO because it is a death sentence to say you don't. That means there are plenty of agencies that do little more than Facebook+AdWords, pretty URLs, and the other usual suspects.
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- smartwater 13y agoIf pretty URLs provides value to a business, that might be all they need.
- dchuk 13y agoNot a single sentence you wrote here is anywhere close to being true. There are lots of ways to skin the SEO cat, and that ranges from very white to very very black hat. It all depends on your tolerance for risk and ability to layout capital to get there. When people comment the way you just did, it's usually a good way to identify people who really have no idea how SEO works.
- livestyle 13y agoI actually wrote about this very subject a couple of months ago regarding a craigslist web app I help create. http://blendah.com/post/37787050142/how-to-get-a-top-google-ranking http://blendah.com/post/37787050142/how-to-get-a-top-google-... Hope this helps.
- sixQuarks 13y agoI've attracted over 50 million unique visitors to my sites using organic SEO over the past 10 years. I've always focused on the content and never tried to game the system. I never tried to do link building, etc. I started out reading highrankings.com - they are a whitehat seo proponent. Just been following white hat all along and Google has rewarded me throughout.
- rfnslyr 13y agoHijacking top comment: I follow guidelines in: http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimiza... + SEOMoz.