Are there really any SEO "secrets" out there?

11 years ago

Originally Posted by LetsGoViral

I am desperately looking for an "expert" in field of SEO to improve on page SEO optimization. I've looked on forums and odesk and all people claim that they are experts and know the "secrets" of SEO. However, mostly it boils down to the same stuff: keyword optimization, meta tags, meta descriptions and header titles along with a company blog and posting of regular updates. I don't even need backlinks, just some on site optimization.

So far I see that these are most important things:
1) Site loads fast
2) Legitimate content (not spammy, dupe content)
3) Meta tags
4) Meta descriptions
5) Headers
6) Crawlable
7) Has sitemap
8) Server in near visitors.

Am I missing something here?

1. good but not priority unless site loads really slow
2. the better the content the better
3. meta tags are so 2004
4. meta descriptions are only relevant for for site description, but for seo, nothing much
5. i would say not so much unless complete crap
6. ofcourse!
7. brilliant!
8. not really, depends on target audience and target keywords
9. i'm drunk right now

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Kevin Maguire

11 years ago

Originally Posted by LetsGoViral

1) Site loads fast
2) Legitimate content (not spammy, dupe content)
3) Meta tags
4) Meta descriptions
5) Headers
6) Crawlable
7) Has sitemap
8) Server in near visitors.

9) Classified Top Secret
10)Classified Top Secret

There you go.

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patadeperro 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kevin Maguire

9) Classified Top Secret
10)Classified Top Secret

There you go.

9) high PR backlinks.
10) More relevant and high PR backlinks

There you go, I spilled the beans..
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flipfire

11 years ago

There's no secrets to SEO just follow Googles guidelines...

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Lee

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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by LetsGoViral

I am desperately looking for an "expert" in field of SEO to improve on page SEO optimization. I've looked on forums and odesk and all people claim that they are experts and know the "secrets" of SEO. However, mostly it boils down to the same stuff: keyword optimization, meta tags, meta descriptions and header titles along with a company blog and posting of regular updates. I don't even need backlinks, just some on site optimization.

So far I see that these are most important things:
1) Site loads fast
2) Legitimate content (not spammy, dupe content)
3) Meta tags
4) Meta descriptions
5) Headers
6) Crawlable
7) Has sitemap
8) Server in near visitors.

Am I missing something here?

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Kevin Maguire

11 years ago

Brian's going to need to start paying me for dropping links for him.

This article post will give you a broader picture of SEO ranking factors.

[Infographic] Google's 200 Ranking Factors | Search Engine Journal

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yukon Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kevin Maguire

Brian's going to need to start paying me for dropping links for him.

This article post will give you a broader picture of SEO ranking factors.

Some of that info. is fluff to fill out the 200 list.

Example, the amount of text on a web page has nothing to do with ranking a target keyword.
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- Kevin Maguire 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  Some of that info. is fluff to fill out the 200 list.
  
  Example, the amount of text on a web page has nothing to do with ranking a target keyword.
  
  For sure, but my magic marker doesn't extend to Brian's infographic.
  Do you think I even read that graphic?
  
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Stephen Root

11 years ago

There's 2 rules in SEO that will guarantee your success.

1. rule: Do not reveal your secrets.

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Clint Faber

11 years ago

Its funny you know. There will continue to be be secrets and I will keep sheering them

Implement and you will see and know all

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seonutshell

11 years ago

Dupe content is more than just posting the same article twice. If the content appears twice under 2 different urld then you have a problem. When you have tags/categories, and a post is under more than on tag or category you now have dupe content.

Look into rel=canonical and that should help you out a lot. also relly simple to fix when using wordpress.

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JakeJordan

11 years ago

99.99% of the people having trouble with SEO are only struggling because they don't truly understand how Google ranks pages. It's more than just keyword spamming and backlinking, you are a really going to need to do your research to succeed in a SEO based market. Here is a link to Google's SEO policies, I advise that you get familiar with them. http://static.googleusercontent.com/...rter-guide.pdf
Once you read this, you will understand how SEO works. I promise, there are no secrets, just lazy people who don't want to work hard enough to uncover the METHOD to SEO.

Hope this helps and Good Luck!!

Jake J.

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Clint Faber 11 years ago

Originally Posted by JakeJordan

99.99%

It is much more then just sticking to the outline given bye Google and it can be complex at times but I do agree that one must get out there and try to understand the full story.
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brandilynbriggs

11 years ago

Originally Posted by JakeJordan

99.99% of the people having trouble with SEO are only struggling because they don't truly understand how Google ranks pages. It's more than just keyword spamming and backlinking, you are a really going to need to do your research to succeed in a SEO based market. Here is a link to Google's SEO policies, I advise that you get familiar with them. http://static.googleusercontent.com/...rter-guide.pdf
Once you read this, you will understand how SEO works. I promise, there are no secrets, just lazy people who don't want to work hard enough to uncover the METHOD to SEO.

Hope this helps and Good Luck!!

Jake J.

I absolutely agree with this post, I have just spent most of my day really working on my SEO. It is not easy and there is no short cut, but with anything worth having and having well, hard work is the only way you are going to achieve your goals and rankings.

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PerformanceMan

11 years ago

Secrets would never be revealed in a public forum, would they?

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Clint Faber 11 years ago

Originally Posted by PerformanceMan

Secrets would never be revealed in a public forum, would they?

Clever clever PerformanceMan
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  Originally Posted by Clint Faber
  
  Clever clever PerformanceMan
  
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Mohamad Zidani

11 years ago

the secret is to follow google guidelines and google updates

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Hrkjds

11 years ago

You love Google, you like Google, you want to see your site on Google, you talk about Google, you search on Google, every where is Google, so why don't you follow what Google suggests for on page optimization?

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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

Can you rank a video thumbnail image in Google search without even having a video (any video)? I can. :p

Learned that trick from a real estate site, they had thousands of video thumbnail images ranked & no videos.

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SocialDemon

11 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Can you rank a video thumbnail image in Google search without even having a video (any video)? I can. :p

Learned that trick from a real estate site, they had thousands of video thumbnail images ranked & no videos.

Yukon we want to know the technique.....

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vk3

11 years ago

Rule #1 - find out what Google wants...
Rule #2 - give Google what it wants...

= profit?

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smodha

11 years ago

You can save yourself a lot of headache by removing Google from the equation. It doesn't matter where your traffic comes from - you need to invest money so instead of trying to please Google (who don't give a f*ck about you or your business) just go to where the traffic already exists.

I'm using FB Ads. Once you get to grips with it - it's very profitable and doesn't cost much if you laser target your audience.

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SocialDemon

11 years ago

Originally Posted by smodha

I'm using FB Ads. Once you get to grips with it - it's very profitable and doesn't cost much if you laser target your audience.

Fbook adds pay off? Are you selling products to facebook traffic? If so then I do believe I can provide much better results than facebook adds as I know how to create a group/fanpage then increase relevant members/likers. After all how to drive them to my target page. But the only problem is these traffic didnt convert well. So not sure how lucrative facebook adds can be.

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paulgl

11 years ago

No real SEO person does not have tricks. Everyone knows blah blah blah...
but that's basic crap for morons...a true SEO genius will have stuff he
leaves behind the curtain. I have given a taste of mine here and there.
Yukon has disclosed some GREAT shi-ite. But he draws the line.

Paul

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Clint Faber

11 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

No real SEO person does not have tricks. Everyone knows blah blah blah...
but that's basic crap for morons...a true SEO genius will have stuff he
leaves behind the curtain. I have given a taste of mine here and there.
Yukon has disclosed some GREAT shi-ite. But he draws the line.

Paul

Well I'm no genius Paulgl but I do have expansive skills working with SE algorithms.
There is shit information out there I agree if someone is selling the information you should expect to get the full story. It wold be unethical to knowingly withhold value expected bye the buyer of the information.

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Curtis2011

11 years ago

There is no secret to on-page optimization. It is a limited amount of things you can do and once you do them, you need to work on off-page links.

Originally Posted by yukon

Example, the amount of text on a web page has nothing to do with ranking a target keyword.

I disagree. I've analyzed enough SERPs to realize that more text on a page, as long as it is relevant to the subject matter, will almost always help your ranking for the primary keyword of that page.

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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Example, the amount of text on a web page has nothing to do with ranking a target keyword.

Originally Posted by Curtis2011

I disagree. I've analyzed enough SERPs to realize that more text on a page, as long as it is relevant to the subject matter, will almost always help your ranking for the primary keyword of that page.

I guess we'll both have to disagree because as long as I'm ranking pages with low text count per page I'll never believe the amount of text on a page matters for ranking your target keyword. Now If your targeting multiple keywords per page, sure, the more keywords on the page the more longtails you'll get.

Thing is, a long page of text can be broken down into multiple internal pages & with good internal linking stand a chance of getting double/triple SERP listings (per keyword), that won't happen If you have a single long page of text.

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mediamarket

11 years ago

There is no one secret, its about making backlinks really and making it natural and authoritative in google eyes.

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Fernando Veloso

11 years ago

Originally Posted by LetsGoViral

Am I missing something here?

You're missing the secrets.

But those who know these secrets prefer to keep a low profile. Most of these guys discover these secrets by testing AND/OR when checking competition in "interesting" markets.

Fact is: these secrets equal big money. Don't expect them (usually) in a WSO or a blog post.

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jason1985

11 years ago

i know someone who can rank a blank page. lol or 1 sentence. lol. they way I see it which i will do is own my own network. if you wanted to , you could of ranked a domain that looks like its about dogs, but instead is about soccer balls. it could throw them off though by that title and ull have confused traffic at times

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Dentist

11 years ago

There are secrets... and I learnt a thing or two about SEOs a while back:
- You can find some treasures by following the experts and reading their less popular posts.
- As soon as a secret is out there and everybody is talking about it, or using it, it is the time to get out, forget that method and save yourself. Soon it will be banished and penalized.
So, how to learn secrets?
- Learn a lot, experiment a lot, understand the foundation not just methods, Think as if you are Google and think if you were in their shoes how you would bust people, then avoid the obvious pitfalls, create your own methods, test them a few times, and go with them silently, quit them if too many people figured them out, be alive and dynamic, move forward and learn continuously, build a business not just be obsessed with SEO, and for god's sake ignore every thread and everyone that says SEO is dead.

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Klemen Znidar

11 years ago

No secrets really. Just don't over optimize and make sure you work on quality and not quantity. (:

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seonutshell

11 years ago

I have a secret and no matter how many times i say it, nobody acts on it!

the secret is to provide useful shareable content.

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Derwin Ryder

11 years ago

There is no secrets..

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RizeAcademy

11 years ago

Do and learn.

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Make Money Ninja

11 years ago

All of what OP said is not a secret.

Personally, the biggest secret is hard work and testing. The people who make the most, in the most profitable industries have tested everything black, white, grey, purple... you name it, we've done it.

It's the only way to get really good.

Right now, freshess is overvalued, and youtube is super easy to game.

High PR links are also king, that is the page, not the domain. Domain PR means shit.

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10 years ago

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