Yep this is quite right. This place is a gold mine of information. Just spend some time right here and you can learn everything you need to know.

yeah it's too bad it took me a while to find this place. I've been doing Seo for years and only recently have I had a reason to come into the forums to see what people are currently doing. The reason for that is that the bottom-line factors for Seo really haven't changed for years. Only the flavors of the year have changed... Boost factors like RSS feeds article writing and all that other stuff that gets hype going but eventually doesn't count for very much.

That's the challenge you have in sorting out the BS from the real info you need. At first it's very hard but after a while it's just basic logic. But you can only see that after you've sorted through the amount of BS.

the other forms of been to are full of people just running around vomiting things they have heard from other people ( accurate or not ). their only purpose is to dump their signature in the thread hoping to get a back link which probably don't count for much now anyway. Sure they will show up in Google or Yahoo but as far as actually helping you toward your keyword goals is another story.

nevermind people that want to show proof or demand proof for things because the factors that really matter there is rarely any proof of. additionally threads like that get into senseless arguments in which people get so distracted by trying to prove their points you just wasting time. Just do what makes sense by the user... Which is something a lot of people don't want to face. And by the time you prove something another factor has taken center stage. One example is keywords in the domain name. That was like THEE hot topic of the year. Everybody flooded it spammed to hell... And now it means hardly anything.

Some of the factors that are still happening now such as all this mass article writing that has been going on for years.. I'd say it's about time for that to change just like the other factors have faded away over the years.

You have to acquire the mentality of a lot of the information out there is out of date or quite simply useless.

The worst is the self-proclaimed Seo consultants that learned a few tricks and then think there some kind of professional and attempt to make money by selling you outdated information or information that is really help you.

For the more experienced people they are easy to spot... For someone new like yourself not so easy.


The bottom line is like this... if an Seo element doesn't make sense for users to your site don't do it. this is written in an indirect way right on the Google guidelines for webmasters which so many people ignore.

Forums are good sources of info but you have to determine what is the truth and is BS. Some members maybe misinformed on some SEO methods and you'll think of their tips as gospel truth.

Better learn to distinguish member who have authority.

i suggest by reading forums.. you will learn a lot here