Is SEO sometimes a waste of time?

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When you are making sites that are in hugely saturated markets, with a lot of authority sites already dominating the search engines results, does SEO become completely irrelevant? Unless you stay for years and become an authority site, in the short to middle term are search engines (google) going to deliver ANY significant traffic to your site at all?
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  • Profile picture of the author Christopher Fox
    Originally Posted by foreverstray View Post

    When you are making sites that are in hugely saturated markets, with a lot of authority sites already dominating the search engines results, does SEO become completely irrelevant? Unless you stay for years and become an authority site, in the short to middle term are search engines (google) going to deliver ANY significant traffic to your site at all?
    I see SEO, these days, as more a compliance thing, rather than a tactic. Google is more interested in context than individual keywords. They want to put your site on page one because it is relevant and contains information useful to their consumer - the searcher. Not because it is all 'tricked out' SEO wise.

    SEO is dying, somewhat. Things like KW research will always be important, but many SEO agencies are branching out their services a bit. It is becoming more of just a checklist. Make sure stuff is 'optimized' and in the right place, etc.

    Further, you are looking for SEO keyword based search results on a HIGHLY competitive term. I don't know what AdWords is charging per click for SEO related stuff, but I bet it ain't cheap.

    I would suggest trying a different angle or approach.
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  • Profile picture of the author kk075
    SEO is never a waste of time if you implement it properly, but real optimization is a process that most internet marketers simply can't be bothered to committing to.

    It's like saying you're going to wash you car but only spraying a little bit of water on the tires- your car is still going to look like crap afterwards. SEO works the exact same way; if you want to have great results, then you have to put in AT LEAST the same amount of effort that all the top businesses within your niche did when they started.
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    • Profile picture of the author rgesm
      Originally Posted by kk075 View Post

      SEO is never a waste of time if you implement it properly, but real optimization is a process that most internet marketers simply can't be bothered to committing to.

      It's like saying you're going to wash you car but only spraying a little bit of water on the tires- your car is still going to look like crap afterwards. SEO works the exact same way; if you want to have great results, then you have to put in AT LEAST the same amount of effort that all the top businesses within your niche did when they started.
      perfect analogy with the car wash. I also do local SEO stuff for clients and i hear from most IMers that they want to have their site up fast and they usually tend to leave after 1-2months always expecting quick results. i focus more on long term clients but I'm going to use this analogy when I speak to my next potential customer lol. thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author Leatherman
      Originally Posted by kk075 View Post

      SEO is never a waste of time if you implement it properly, but real optimization is a process that most internet marketers simply can't be bothered to committing to.

      It's like saying you're going to wash you car but only spraying a little bit of water on the tires- your car is still going to look like crap afterwards. SEO works the exact same way; if you want to have great results, then you have to put in AT LEAST the same amount of effort that all the top businesses within your niche did when they started.
      And I can't agree more with you. After reading your article about SEO 2015, looking at my site - , honestly I would not put up my site up on first page myself, let's forget about Google&Friends
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    • Profile picture of the author rgesm
      Originally Posted by kk075 View Post

      SEO is never a waste of time if you implement it properly, but real optimization is a process that most internet marketers simply can't be bothered to committing to.

      It's like saying you're going to wash you car but only spraying a little bit of water on the tires- your car is still going to look like crap afterwards. SEO works the exact same way; if you want to have great results, then you have to put in AT LEAST the same amount of effort that all the top businesses within your niche did when they started.
      i agree 100% of the time Imer's want things quick and fast. I adopt a slow and steady approach and tend to drip feed things over a course of 5-10 days.
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    For some people, SEO works really well while for others it doesn't.

    You can do SEO when you start out but this should be 10% of your overall actions. When you start out, 90% of your time and efforts should be to test all sorts of paid avenues to see which ones work best for you and which ones don't.

    If you are in a "business", you should not hesitate to invest money into your business (Education, marketing, books on SEO, etc)
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    • Originally Posted by talfighel View Post

      For some people, SEO works really well while for others it doesn't.

      You can do SEO when you start out but this should be 10% of your overall actions. When you start out, 90% of your time and efforts should be to test all sorts of paid avenues to see which ones work best for you and which ones don't.
      In conventional business that should be the case, but with the leverage of the internet, you should be able to make money applying SEO as well because targeting buyer keywords would attract people in the "buyer" frame of mind. "Buy xyz prduct", "xyz product review", "xyz product bonus"
      Originally Posted by talfighel View Post

      If you are in a "business", you should not hesitate to invest money into your business (Education, marketing, books on SEO, etc)
      Yes that is all fine, but that you should be able to use that knowledge and make money out of thin air once you have mastered all those paid strategies.
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    • Profile picture of the author kk075
      Originally Posted by talfighel View Post

      For some people, SEO works really well while for others it doesn't.

      You can do SEO when you start out but this should be 10% of your overall actions. When you start out, 90% of your time and efforts should be to test all sorts of paid avenues to see which ones work best for you and which ones don't.

      If you are in a "business", you should not hesitate to invest money into your business (Education, marketing, books on SEO, etc)
      I could not disagree more...why would you want to pay for traffic on an unproven website when fully optimizing the text makes it more friendly to Google, visitors, affiliates and virtually any other segment you can name?

      Because whether people realize it or not, SEO doesn't stand for "Search Engine Optimization" in 2015, it stands for "Make Customers Happy." If you only spend 10% of your time making sure your site does that though and then throw out big advertising dollars to split-test lousy landing pages, then you're going to waste hundreds or even thousands of dollars to realize what I just told you.
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  • Profile picture of the author solarwarrior
    I start out with SEO at first, but the time taken to get a site ranked + all the stress of surviving the next animal update onslaught lead me to PPC.

    Ever since then, I have a good sleep every night knowing with certainty I will see leads in my inbox the next day.
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  • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
    Depends on what you are trying to accomplish. I own two sites that will almost never get any search traffic (or very, very little) even if fully optized and ranking for major keywords because of my reputation in the community in which I operate. My brand spreads via word of mouth and social media. As such, I don't go out of my way and spend lots of time worrying about SEO and optimizing.

    However, that doesn't mean I don't subscribe to good SEO practices out of good habit.
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  • Profile picture of the author flightlayaway1
    SEO is not waste of time.You should work with effective techniques or result oriented techniques.after latest update of Google quality content is a vital part of SEO for get ranked and quick results.
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  • Profile picture of the author sakib777
    In two cases SEO is totally waste of time:

    1. If you target very high competitive keywords to rank your site

    2. If you don't go through a proper keyword research
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  • Profile picture of the author cookiesfromhome
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    I don't think that SEO is waste of time .always make sure that you are using quality contents and links for your webpages.
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  • Profile picture of the author discrat
    Originally Posted by foreverstray View Post

    When you are making sites that are in hugely saturated markets, with a lot of authority sites already dominating the search engines results, does SEO become completely irrelevant? Unless you stay for years and become an authority site, in the short to middle term are search engines (google) going to deliver ANY significant traffic to your site at all?
    It is sure not as effective as it was 6 or 7 years ago.

    There is not doubt that you can be successful with it.

    But Google has taken measures to make it somewhat difficult to stay on top without a lot of fluctuations



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  • Profile picture of the author SEWARRIOR
    Indeed SEO is not waste of time or money. If you feel market saturated and adword is the way to go, just imagine the PPC rate. Again still websites ranking for competitive keywords using things like PBN, web 2.0. Keyword research is key to success, any niche market doesn't contain couple of keyword rather a list of main, secondary and long tail keywords so look into it and work on those keywords were SERP1st page have atleast 1 pr2 page
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  • Profile picture of the author Eagle07
    Originally Posted by foreverstray View Post

    When you are making sites that are in hugely saturated markets, with a lot of authority sites already dominating the search engines results, does SEO become completely irrelevant? Unless you stay for years and become an authority site, in the short to middle term are search engines (google) going to deliver ANY significant traffic to your site at all?

    When you are making sites that are in hugely saturated markets, with a lot of authority sites already dominating the search engines results, SEO will NOT become COMPLETELY irrelevant especially when you concentrate on optimizing related keywords that are not optimized by your competitors.

    When it comes to traffic, it all depends on how many people are searching for the keyword you have optimized. This means even if you rank no. 1 in your optimized keyword when only a few people search for that keyword then traffic will not that be huge.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rory Singh
    It all depends on where you want your traffic to come from. If you want traffic from Google, then you need to give them what they want in the form of SEO and Optimization.

    But I think Google Favors (after the big name sites) webmasters who focus more on content for their readers first, and search engines second.

    When you don't need Google, that is when they will feed you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Leatherman
    I think this thread is going again in the direction of SEO vs PPC, which it should not.
    Let's see the great possibilities what PPC can give us. Big keywords like "shoes online", for example. With PPC you can stand next or above Zappos, Amazon & Co. That's great, isn't it?
    The point is, what is helping you and where are you standing with your business? Can you really utilize this being next to the giants? If you just have a small online shop with some 10 self designed sneakers, than you will certainly see your PPC customers leaving your page faster than you can pay for. Simply because you don't meet the expectations for 99% off the visitors.
    On the other hand, if you go for the low competition keyword for "Customized designer sneakers" or something like that, than why you need to go for PPC? Here are no Amazons, so why not try with SEO?
    I think, it's all about your business perspective and for sure if you have to push some products, you need both.
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  • Profile picture of the author anynewsbd
    if you can not do the seo perfectly then it is waste of time
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    • Profile picture of the author MollyRich
      If the content id of high quality, SEO is never a waste of time. However, we have to remember that it is only a part of a process that can lead us to success. It's true that traffic does not equal conversion but no one will convince me that it's completely useless
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    • Profile picture of the author rosario1990
      Originally Posted by anynewsbd View Post

      if you can not do the seo perfectly then it is waste of time
      Of course, anyone should know the proper method of SEO. Otherwise for them it's a waste of time.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by foreverstray View Post

    When you are making sites that are in hugely saturated markets, with a lot of authority sites already dominating the search engines results, does SEO become completely irrelevant? Unless you stay for years and become an authority site, in the short to middle term are search engines (google) going to deliver ANY significant traffic to your site at all?
    Most people fail to comprehend authority competition & keyword research.

    Always target root keywords as If your trying to rank for those keywords but at the same time have realistic expectations. Example, you're not outranking apple.com for the keyword iphone, but that doesn't matter because we know apple.com will own that keyword in Google SERPs forever.

    What matters is you target the root keyword to associate your own web pages with the keyword (ex: iphone).

    This way you build up longtail keywords that can piggyback off your root keyword internal page/s authority. Example, so now you'll have authority anytime you want to target a longtail iphone keyword.

    Here's an example how root keywords work in Google SERPs to create authority for longtail keywords.

    Do a Google search for the keyword best or buy, bestbuy.com ranks #1 & #2. BestBuy has tons of backlinks with the anchor-text best & buy, those root keywords are their foot in the door for longtail keywords that include the keywords (best, buy).

    Root keywords: best, buy
    • best iphone
    • best pc
    • best tablet
    • best cell phone
    • etc...
    • buy iphone
    • buy pc
    • buy tablet
    • buy cell phone
    • etc...

    Don't confuse the domain name (best + buy + .com) with the authority backlinks & anchor-text.

    Focus on the BIG picture & be realistic when it comes to SERP competition.
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    • Profile picture of the author Leatherman
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Most people fail to comprehend authority competition & keyword research.

      Always target root keywords as If your trying to rank for those keywords but at the same time have realistic expectations. Example, you're not outranking apple.com for the keyword iphone, but that does't matter because we know apple.com will own that keyword in Google SERPs forever.

      What matters is you target the root keyword to associate your own web pages with the keyword (ex: iphone).

      This way you build up longtail keywords that can piggyback off your root keyword internal page/s authority. Example, so now you'll have authority anytime you want to target a longtail iphone keyword.

      Here's an example how root keywords work in Google SERPs to create authority for longtail keywords.

      Do a Google search for the keyword best or buy, bestbuy.com ranks #1 & #2. BestBuy has tons of backlinks with the anchor-text best & buy, those root keywords are their foot in the door for longtail keywords that include the keywords (best, buy).

      Root keywords: best, buy
      • best iphone
      • best pc
      • best tablet
      • best cell phone
      • etc...
      • buy iphone
      • buy pc
      • buy tablet
      • buy cell phone
      • etc...

      Don't confuse the domain name (best + buy + .com) with the authority backlinks & anchor-text.

      Focus on the BIG picture & be realistic when it comes to SERP competition.
      Woaw! I just google "buy best iphone" and really like you said, the first 4! places is only bestbuy.com, than itunes, Macworld, ebay and than really comes a blogger! That guy made an huge article, but he is in the top page! Now my question goes like this: To reach there, he must squeezed somebody else out. How is he achieving that? He starts with writing a great, big article, he may be puts some few links out and than something must have happened, but what? Can somebody explain this?
      Leatherman

      I'm not using google,com, so that guy I'm talking about calls himself appleinsider.com
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Leatherman View Post

        Woaw! I just google "buy best iphone" and really like you said, the first 4! places is only bestbuy.com...
        That's what I'm talking about (root keyword authority).

        Now look at where bestbuy.com ranks for the root keyword iphone, they rank #52 on Google SERPs.

        What's happening with that specific longtail keyword is bestbuy.com has built up such a MASSIVE amount of authority from the backlink anchor-text & branding for the individual root keywords best & buy that they can enter any related additional keyword (ex: iphone) & most of the SEO work is already done because of the root keywords they previously targeted.

        This still works on a smaller scale for a lot of longtail keywords even If you don't rank the root keywords #1, #2, etc... but the root keyword SEO has to be done regardless. It's like a car race, you're guaranteed to never win any position unless you enter the race (target root keywords).













        Originally Posted by Leatherman View Post

        Woaw! I just google "buy best iphone" and really like you said, the first 4! places is only bestbuy.com, than itunes, Macworld, ebay and than really comes a blogger! That guy made an huge article, but he is in the top page! Now my question goes like this: To reach there, he must squeezed somebody else out. How is he achieving that? He starts with writing a great, big article, he may be puts some few links out and than something must have happened, but what? Can somebody explain this?
        Leatherman

        I'm not using google,com, so that guy I'm talking about calls himself appleinsider.com
        I see appleinsider.com at #17 for the keyword buy best iphone.

        Appleinsider is an authority site that's been around for over 15 years. I didn't look but I'm sure they have a bunch of relevant authority backlinks.

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        • Profile picture of the author Leatherman
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          That's what I'm talking about (root keyword authority).

          Now look at where bestbuy.com ranks for the root keyword iphone, they rank #52 on Google SERPs.

          What's happening with that specific longtail keyword is bestbuy.com has built up such a MASSIVE amount of authority from the backlink anchor-text & branding for the individual root keywords best & buy that they can enter any related additional keyword (ex: iphone) & most of the SEO work is already done because of the root keywords they previously targeted.

          This still works on a smaller scale for a lot of longtail keywords even If you don't rank the root keywords #1, #2, etc... but the root keyword SEO has to be done regardless. It's like a car race, you're guaranteed to never win any position unless you enter the race (target root keywords).















          I see appleinsider.com at #17 for the keyword buy best iphone.

          Appleinsider is an authority site that's been around for over 15 years. I didn't look but I'm sure they have a bunch of relevant authority backlinks.

          Great, thanks, but if possible I don't like to leave here at this point.
          Let me try if I got it. Appleinsider is 15 years old and must have gained serious authority backlinks, may be even by Apple themselves. So far all clear, but now that guy writes a new article and he starts like you and me - with blank screen, no links nothing. He writes great and massive content, whatever more than 3k words. Now the site gets published and get indexed by google. Does Google now already takes it up in a way like, "oh great a new masterpiece of appleinsider, must be great because they always did in the past and pushes the site up, certainly not on top, but up. Or Google now just simply recognizes big content alone. From here onward only appleinsider can start acquiring it's old contacts and start getting links after links. Google comes back to the site, is happy with appleinsider progress and ranks the site higher. Does it work somehow like this? Sorry, if it goes a little bit away from the starting thread - I will keep it as it is, if I get a good answer from somebody
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            Originally Posted by Leatherman View Post

            Great, thanks, but if possible I don't like to leave here at this point.
            Let me try if I got it. Appleinsider is 15 years old and must have gained serious authority backlinks, may be even by Apple themselves. So far all clear, but now that guy writes a new article and he starts like you and me - with blank screen, no links nothing. He writes great and massive content, whatever more than 3k words. Now the site gets published and get indexed by google. Does Google now already takes it up in a way like, "oh great a new masterpiece of appleinsider, must be great because they always did in the past and pushes the site up, certainly not on top, but up. Or Google now just simply recognizes big content alone. From here onward only appleinsider can start acquiring it's old contacts and start getting links after links. Google comes back to the site, is happy with appleinsider progress and ranks the site higher. Does it work somehow like this? Sorry, if it goes a little bit away from the starting thread - I will keep it as it is, if I get a good answer from somebody
            With 15 years worth of organic authority links appleinsider could post an image & nothing else on a web page & still rank in Google SERPs.

            The amount of text (3k words) you see on their webpage is irrelevant.

            When you build up authority on one page, that authority can be passed to additional internal pages via internal links just the same as external backlinks from other domains. You still have to have a starting point on a new domain & build up the initial authority from strong/followed external backlinks. Repeating the external links for multiple internal pages creates multiple authority pages which in turn can each be piggybacked via internal links to new web pages targeting similar longtail keywords.

            Again, BIG picture working here... It's not about a single web page, it's about building a solid foundation to rank a web page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Borja Obeso
    Originally Posted by foreverstray View Post

    When you are making sites that are in hugely saturated markets, with a lot of authority sites already dominating the search engines results, does SEO become completely irrelevant? Unless you stay for years and become an authority site, in the short to middle term are search engines (google) going to deliver ANY significant traffic to your site at all?
    Forget about the old days of SEO where you can rank in competitive industries in the short term by throwing a bunch of links to a weak website.

    SEO is a waste of time if you do it wrong... If your mindset is to build a quick thing for a quick buck then you better look to target extremely non competitive keywords and be SUPER smart about how you get links.

    Outreach and getting your hands dirty is the way to build good quality links nowadays. Sort of "begging" for links.

    It short SEO is not a waste of time if you have a proper purpose and plan for it.

    ANYTHING you do with online marketing, if done wrong, can be a waste of time. Or your results will simply not be as good as they could if you had done thngs right.
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  • Profile picture of the author kazim
    I don't think SEO is a waste of time. I have found that SEO has impact in long run. So I think SEO is always important.
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  • Profile picture of the author alexchen23
    Is SEO a waste of time?

    Well, it depends.

    If you follow Google's rule, then it's not and you will get all the benefits from Google.

    If you are using blackhat technique and want to cheat Google, then you digging a hole for yourself.

    Just follow their rule and you'll be fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author jbsmith
    In our case, here is the order of priority for any new business and sites we create:

    1. Sales page - make sure it converts...it doesn't matter where the traffic comes from is your sales/offer page sucks. So, we test this with combination of paid, affiliate and some SEO traffic early on to make sure the page is going to perform

    2. We then create a sales funnel to pre-sell that page - and we test that. This includes a landing page/squeeze page with giveaway, an offer (either free bonus to get subscribers or to get the lead into our sales funnel and then on to the sales page)

    3. Traffic generation - we typically implement a combination of partnership/affiliate strategies along with paid FB, Adwords and sometimes solo or blog ads, on some sites we create high value content through blogs, podcasts, forums, etc...and then ensure we have social setup around YouTube, Twitter and either FB, Instagram or Pintrest depending on the market segment and approach we will take (visual versus otherwise). We do pay attention to SEO with our content but that is only after we determine which content is most appealing to our customers - some basic optimizations from there.

    Our traffic is about 50/50 between SEO and non-SEO, conversions though are much higher on non-SEO (and always will in our experience across our own sites and coaching customers - even with a highly optimized campaign)

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  • Profile picture of the author mythoslife
    The answer is NO.

    SEO is simply a technique to increase your website traffic. If you don't have a web optimized site for search engines, then searches to your website will be at the very bottom of the list and will not gain traction.

    1. Keywords must be enough but not too spammy
    2. Website codes (specially HTML and other languages used like JavaScript and PHP) must be functional. Example, a website done with automatically generated like Webly and all that isn't as search engine friendly as a real customized website done by a web developer (not web designers).

    Good luck!

    -john

    Originally Posted by foreverstray View Post

    When you are making sites that are in hugely saturated markets, with a lot of authority sites already dominating the search engines results, does SEO become completely irrelevant? Unless you stay for years and become an authority site, in the short to middle term are search engines (google) going to deliver ANY significant traffic to your site at all?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Mazza
    If your market is saturated and the top spots are already claimed then I would not do SEO, you can spend your dollars elsewhere. But if there is room then yes, you can and should put an effort into SEO. It is not that hard if you pick the right words and do things right.
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  • Profile picture of the author jerrodrobker
    SEO is never a waste of time. It'll help you to get much traffics to your website and will increase your ranking. But without SEO normally I think it is difficult to get good amount of traffic and higher ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Wether SEO works depends on the situation, so there's no easy answer. Even with a saturated market you could find a strategy that works for you. Or you may just find out that it's irrelevant because your target market isn't using the search for some reason.

    SEO can be everything from the main strategy to sort of an amplifier for the overall branding and marketing. It should not be the only tool in the war chest.
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    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author alannahgmvw
    it's a waste of time if your methods are not gonna work. But hey SEO is all about trial and error so learn to adopt the changes and prepare to implement needed adjustments.
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  • Profile picture of the author charto911
    SEO has made me a millionaire so is it a waste of time no? What you can do is have goals and realistic expectations. In some niches I let clients know we can go grey, black, and white with our tactics with each having different life spans. Sometimes the white hat never pans out at a reasonable cost and the black hat pays off other times it is the opposite.
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  • Profile picture of the author ArchanaYadav
    Seo is never irrelevant or waste of time. It is a modern day technique for generating high ranking for your website on any search engine at no time. It is irrelevant only when your backlinks dose not follow proper seo rules.
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  • Profile picture of the author charlesdavis
    Its never wasting of time if legally you are doing it...this service is very powerful to increased your business.Never Think it is wasting of time...Social media and another things are subsidiary part of it and all are too much useful nowadays!
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  • Profile picture of the author jameswilliam724
    I don't thibk SEO is waste of time. SEO is worthwhile when you follow some white hat rules. Obviously It is a long term task to achieve high rank on search engines. But once you achieve it then you become popular world wide. I advise you that don't get frustrate for whatever happens against you. Keep post unique contents and share it on social media and content curation sites. These days its a better way to drive traffics to our blog or article.
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  • Profile picture of the author KylieSweet
    SEO will be a waste of time if you doesn't even know what you are doing in the website. I would like to state that every website needs different SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Slade556
    SEO is never a waste of your time IF you're doing the right things. If you want to do proper SEO you need to be consistent and keep up with everyone else, it'll be difficult especially at first since you are new and the others are already way ahead of you, but definitely don't ignore it altogether!
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  • Profile picture of the author dewalds86
    I agree SEO is not a waste of time but it does take time and effort. Good SEO is a long term commitment that pays of in the long run. You just have to work very hard at it.
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  • Profile picture of the author arindamroy
    SEO has never been a waste of time and never will be. It has evolved a lot over the years and is now more focused on the content rather than other factors. There are some permanent things like keyword researching and on page SEO that need to be done carefully and if implemented correctly, then it would be a long term benefit. Another factor to be remembered is the implementation of responsive design for newer websites and upgrading older ones. Google is giving priority to this thing very much.
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  • Profile picture of the author raxum
    If you want to utilize your time properly and effectively in terms of productivity then you should do your homework first. Research your niche, find out your competitors, profitable keywords and make sure to check your competitors backlink profile so that you can get links from same place the way they did. With time and effort you will eventually outrank your competitors in no time!
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  • Profile picture of the author tkhassan
    If you don't concentrate on the quality then it can be a waste of time building hundreds of virtual useless links.
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  • Profile picture of the author PBScott
    SEO is an absolute necessity if you want traffic from a search engine. Even in a ridiculously competitive market, you can find some things to attract search engine visitors. The key to on page SEO is to do it thoroughly.

    Without on page SEO, your PPC prices I imagine would be ridiculously high.
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  • Profile picture of the author seothink
    Shall i ask one question . Your business will die ? same as until our business on online seo will alive .
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