Comments on: Decoding SEO

By: Quentin Rella

Quentin Rella — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:05:14 +0000

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By: Romy Misra

Romy Misra — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:28:38 +0000

Matt, thanks for your comment.

SEO does involve quite a bit of guesswork. There are some basic we can get right like the site structure( lack of flash content, sitemaps, headings etc) but the exact combination of what works for a site does involve guesswork and intuition.

We have only past results to validate what we do, and what we know and do changes if Google does an algorithm change. Which is why there is no true expert

PS: Thanks Vid!

By: Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:32:09 +0000

I like to equate SEO to 3 main elements: popularity, relevancy and site structure. If you have a static site you haven’t touched in two years, or a blog you update once a month, chances are you won’t be in the top search results.

If you page is not relevant, or you have spammy links pointing to you because you bought them from somewhere, chances are you are not going to be in the top search results.

And if your site’s plumbing and architecture is hindering the crawlers from finding what you have, again, you likely will not be showing up in the top listings.

This is the basic methodology of how our Website Analyzer works in trying to uncover some of the more common mistakes made when optimizing for search engines.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:38:53 +0000

SEO is not some mystical black box…if you are educated on SEO and take a methodical approach you can drive real results. I would say there are “experts”….I’ve worked with several who have proven results through ‘white glove’ methodologies. If you are “trying to beat Google” you are by definition not optimizing for search