4 SEO Myths That Still Exist Today. Let's BUST 'em now!

superb article i hope it can help a lot who going crazy about seo.

To bad that this thread won't matter.... I guarantee you that there will always be threads being posted titled the following

"Is SEO Dead??"
"SEO is Dead"
"How Dead is SEO??"
"Did SEO Die Today??"

and my personal favorite from a thread back in 2012
"SEO will DIE Soon"

SEO IS DEAD. Don't bother building links.

Content won't rank. Don't bother writing content.

Yes, quality backlink building still works. It works gangsta for me, but I would NEVER bother with shitty content. It's just not worth it!

Sure you can get it ranked, but what's the point? It creates a terrible user experience and I wouldn't attach my name to something like that.
Also, should you ever get a manual review, you will hate yourself for taking that shortcut. I'm speaking from experience here... where a top ranking blog in the health and beauty niche was generating mid to high 5 figures in profit... all on rubbish content... and KABOOOOM... I wake up one morning to the site being completely de-indexed.

And my oh-so-comfortable income was gone with it!

Just not worth your time to mess with anything less than quality content... at least not if you're trying to build an empire that will stand the test of time.

Assuming you never get a manual audit, you have any idea how much Google spends on its algorithmic bot to have it see/read/interpret sites like a human does? Also, Google knows when users have a crappy experience and attempt to leave your site a second after they land. Think: Chrome.

I too used to risk anything to get quick rankings... but as I get older and wiser, slow and steady does it. If you take shortcuts, you will forever look for new shortcuts. Go the extra mile and earn your top rankings by creating a site that really is the BEST on the topic you're trying to rank for. Especially if you plan on sleeping at night without having to worry about your shortcut letting you down.

As the saying goes: Anything worth doing is worth doing well!

To easy up the things and make the SE more happy, people love to write contents.

Link Building is Dead?

We build quality links to reach targeted audience so that they can find our content to benefit them and this will also help the search engine guide the users to present your site according to their queries.

Content is King!

So easy to say but in reality even interesting story can't generate because its not just creating content we must consider first our target audience to benefit them as well as earning reputation within the related field.

I removed the entry in my hosts.ini redirecting this forum to localhost just to post this.

That's the patent and that's how it works.

So do the links have to be from relevant niche sites? Technically no, but it's hard to believe a link from a piece of content that is unrelated would be above the threshold. The patent actually indicates that those links are worthless and may help your site to be deemed low quality.

Anything magical advertised in any SEO marketplace isn't going to do much. Your point is somewhat valid, but for the wrong reasons. I assure you, if your site had quality backlinks from relevant authority sites, those links would be more then "a little boost." You typically are not going to find these in any marketplace.

I concur with ALL OF THESE ACTUALLY!

Finally somebody in the SEO section here on the warrior forum that actually knows what he is talking about.

Link building is pretty much ALL THAT MATTERS (still). Although you have to remember that social links are a type of link(don't forget this).

Content- you could say it actually is "king" but the ONLY WAY GOOGLE DETERMINES THIS(key point) is.......based on the links it gets.

So just remember that. It basically all goes back to the links.

Relevant links I think are still a major boost but yes you can rank without them(the majority of my PBN has an irrelevant tier 2 link profile and still is able to rank my sites).