Are Website SEO Practices Really Having That Much Impact???
The other day I was wondering about web SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and all the time spent by website admins into applying these practices. I ask that because I’ve been seeing some interesting trends in my websites that seem to completely buck the system.
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For me, I can crank out an article in about 10 to 15 minutes and be done with it. Maybe 20 if I stop to fix all my typos and wordos!
But…
But then I have to stop to address ideas like Vision Based Page Segmentation and Semantic Distances and the nuances of a supposed properly formatted SEO’d page with …
- The appropriate amount of minimum words,
- “Relevant links” at the appropriate locations,
- Weighted links at the front or near the top of a page,
- Keywords are properly placed,
- Execute the appropriate tags,
- Insert a picture,
- Make sure the picture has proper alternate text,
etc., etc., etc..
By the time I’m really done with “formatting” my article to kiss the search engines ass, each article takes about an hour. It can be exhausting because small sites have a deficit while established sites can pretty much either ignore or constantly muck with their page formatting.
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I Love this DIYThemes Call Out of TMZ and Pointing Out Bad SEO
For the aspiring webmaster who wants to create a blog and make it big, they have to generate website traffic hits. Web surfers don’t come on their own, that’s for sure. And it’s an interesting learning curve on what a website owner can learn about the all-important world of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and other related issues.
As you delve into this seemingly easy world of the web, you’ll start noticing that there are good ways and bad ways to try and trick Google and other search engines into liking your website.
There are the basics that ProBlogger and DIY Themes can teach you. And as you grow, you’ll notice that different sites do different things to capture traffic. Some nice, some tricky. Some sites use open-ended questions in their titles to bait the curious. Some will use titles making you think they have certain content in the article, but all you get is a “to be posted soon” notice in the article. Then there’s something like what DIY Themes made note of in how TMZ had reported one event many months back.
DIY makes mention of ‘white hat’ and ‘black hat’ SEO practices in their article. That is, doing article creation like a human might do or say it, using all the right key words, but using catch phrases when appropriate. Then there’s ‘black hat’ techniques… that would be like stuffing your titles or web paths or images with keywords, trying to capture traffic.
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