SEO. Most of the advice is nonsense, you are better off figuring it out for yourself: discuss

[markowe]

I have only really started doing serious SEO this year and am seeing some nice results. I am finally able to resurrect many of those old projects that never got anywhere and give them that extra little push so they actually finally start making something!

One of the reasons I never got anywhere with SEO was the incredible amount of misinformation there is out there on the subject! It seems that MOST advice you read on forums is just stuff being regurgitated by people who read the same "advice" on a forum earlier and are just repeating what they have heard! I know this now, because I now know most of it is nonsense (even when there is a grain of truth in it, or when it MAY be true in extreme cases). Such wisdom as:

- building links too fast gets you "penalised" (not necessarily)
- backlinking from duplicate content (e.g. unspun content) gets you "penalised" (nope)
- linkwheels aren't working anymore (well, maybe they're not in the original form)
- linkwheels are working (they certainly aren't if you do them wrong)
- Google penalises sites with unoriginal content on (erm, nope. My Answers/eBay/Youtube mashup site just bounced BACK after 5 months in the sin-bin for an unrelated problem - I suspect a bad popup + Adsense, but evidently unoriginal content ISN'T a problem)
- the Panda will eat your backlinks for breakfast and can recognise spun content that is less than 477% unique (yeah, Panda is to blame for everything, it is an all-powerful algorithm that just rendered all SEO efforts useless).

My advice is - stop listening to all this advice and start DOING. Start trying different things and see what works. Yeah, you MIGHT kill a site for good (highly unlikely though, if it has anything like decent content on it) but that's a learning experience too. More likely though you will discover like I have that most of the "advice" dispensed around here is mere newbie SEO folklore and should be largely ignored, and that you will start to actually see results.

Oh, there are a few people round here and on other forums who DO know what they are talking about - now they are well worth identifying (you know them because they are not just repeating the same old "wisdom" as everyone else, they have a calm, confident "I am out there doing it" air about them). Trouble is, those people are mostly keeping pretty quiet - wisely so, I think. So like I say, roll your sleeves up and start doing it yourself. You will be pleasantly surprised...

[mondays]

You got my VOTE!!

[D3t0x]

Well, advice from people who are trying to sell you stuff is can be BS a lot of the times,
trial and error is the best way to go if you have the time todo it, setup multiple sites with the same keyword keyword-1.com keyword-2.com keyword-3.com ... and go after one keyword and see which of your methods ranks the fastest, then in the end not is all lost, if you wanna continue with the niche 301 redirect all sites to your real website about the niche

[markowe]

Originally Posted by D3t0x

Well, advice from people who are trying to sell you stuff is can be BS a lot of the times,...

Oh yeah, that too, though I was really thinking of people who I guess must just be newbies, who just repeat the same things they have heard from others on forums, stuff that when you start doing experiments yourself, like the one you mention, you realise just aren't true.

So that's another message - newbies, stop acting clever and giving people 'advice' that you just heard on a forum, in some hope that that will make it true in some way. It's probably wrong anyway. Instead go out and start really doing it for yourself - I am talking a couple of months of sustained effort on a site, and see where that gets you. A lot further than the forum talk, I assure you.