How does this happen? Wow.

by irawr Banned
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So, I'm doing some competitive research in a niche.

I find a site, it seems a bit unprofessional but it has a bunch of content. Over 600 posts.

98% of the posts are not properly targeting keywords. The title and h1 usually don't have any keywords, it's like a phrase or a question, like they're completely avoiding any usage of keywords until the body of the content.

The site has backlinks from 9 domains... That's all. Nine... This includes some domain tool websites that are automatically generated.

It's not really ranking for anything, a few random keywords here and there...

Wow. I don't really even know what to say. It's like every single mistake that could be made rolled up into one giant pile of poop. Edit: Well, they didn't spam links and get penalized at least...

I thought the site was penalized initially, but no, they just have absolutely no idea what SEO is. None. Zero SEO... Nothing...
#happen #wow
  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Lol'd at WF's tags: "happen, wow".

    I've seen something like this happen, but on a smaller scale. I was just hired as the WP coder to get the site ready, and an advertising agency did most of the work. The content was very unoptimized, but nothing that couldn't be salvaged with some editing. I did what I could with the tech, and gave a couple of suggestions, but the suggestions didn't go anywhere.

    To make stuff worse this agency somehow got the client to keep up with their bizarre idea of posting random unoptimized stuff. At that point I was out of the picture, and I heard that the agency couldn't keep the client either.

    Did I just blame marketers? Yeah, kinda. Some of the biggest piles of crap I've seen have been from marketing agencies. Of course some of them are really sharp and have dedicated SEO departments.
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    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

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