Comments on: 4 Reasons Why SEO Blogging Sucks

By: Stephen Clark

Stephen Clark — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:24:23 +0000

I appreciate your honesty here. I enjoyed reading your post, thanks for sharing!!

By: philosophy

philosophy — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:59 +0000

you can just look at google top ten for your niche and research their backlinks, meta tags, permalinks, content, social networking activity, affiliates, theme, post frequency and get lucky.

By: YourNetBiz System

YourNetBiz System — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:44:02 +0000

Although I love SEO as a concept, I have to admit that the more I read about it, the more mysterious it gets. I absolutely agree with the post as far as not sharing secrets is concerned – who in their right mind do that? On the other hand, there are many people out there searching for hope, so they will read anything you put in front of them.

Will they do it though? Who knows… Nobody wants to take a chance.

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By: SEO Truths Or Should That Be SEEO? | SEO Scoop

SEO Truths Or Should That Be SEEO? | SEO Scoop — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:04:22 +0000

[...] My colleague, Brian Carter, may well have been tuning into the same groundswell with his recent post, 4 Reasons Why SEO Blogging Sucks. [...]

By: web design tipperary

web design tipperary — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:01:19 +0000

i often find blogs very useful for capturing the long tail search, and have value for this alone if nothing else

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:00:56 +0000

The funny thing about SEO is that even if you laid out a step by step plan of exactly what needs to be done on and off a website they still wouldn’t really know what to do. Until you get in there and really try it out for yourself and analyze the results it can be hard to understand even with the best laid out plan.

By: nomalab

nomalab — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:06:03 +0000

Who wants to blog about SEO anyway? Not the ones who do it, IMHO. Just the wannabees.

By: Why Outspoken Blogs & You Maybe Should

Why Outspoken Blogs & You Maybe Should — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:13:31 +0000

[...] Carter wrote a post earlier this week giving four reasons why SEO blogging sucks and why you shouldn’t do it. And the post is filled with the exact same anti- blogging arguments [...]

By: Jacob Stoops

Jacob Stoops — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:34:20 +0000

I agree, SEO is a difficult topic to blog about. As you said, many SEO articles are written without much statistical research to support the theories. However, this isn’t surprising since the whole industry is based around trying to figure out something that is a secret (the algorithm).

Regarding competitive advantage, I agree that to some degree you may be giving it away by disclosing how to do SEO on your blog. However, many of the people that want to do SEO are small to medium sized biz owners who have little time to do it anyways. Therefore they will pay someone who does have the time. So why not make SEO transparent, so even if they don’t have time to do it themselves, at least they will be educated?

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:34:47 +0000

@Brian

I guess it depends what you class as “community opinion” if your referring to the old Matt Cutt’s “create a great resource/write great content” technique I’m not sure that is the community opinion.

I have been working on search engine optimisation for years now blackhat/greyhat/buying links/link baiting etc….. I don’t think there is a “back door” method.

I know what it takes to rank sites in the top 5 of google for competitive terms, and I don’t particularly have a problem sharing how I did and still do it.

I guess if I had an easy technique to rank highly quickly and was dominating all my competition with little effort I might keep it a close guarded secret but more out of fear of receiving a Google slap, however I don’t know of a technique, SEO is just down right hard graft, well if your going after the high traffic jackpots it is, niche keywords can be dominated in weeks.