Your biggest enemy in SEO

changes. All the changes. What worked yesterday probably won't work tomorrow.

I remember when you could rank on the first page with a mass amount of link directories. Then that went obsolete. Then you could rank on the first page using article directories, then google Panda came out and devalued the links to article marketing.

I've decided the best was is, instead of going for 50,000 backlinks,just go after 1 high-page rank authority backlink. One high quality backlink is worth more than 10's of thousands of low quality, spammy, backlinks... the spammy backlinks google hates.

Sites like Ripoff Report, tough rep management deals, and clients with unrealistic expectations.

For me, it’s the back button. Because if your bounce rates are too high, it could signal the search engines that there is nothing substantial in your site.

The biggest SEO enemy is to listen to all the conflicting SEO advice that the "experts" give out.

For me, the algorithm change is SEO's biggest enemy. When the Google Panda algorithm was implemented few months ago, it made a big impact to those websites that are fully optimized by the SEO specialists. It would be worthless if Google has changed their rules again.

Great Question! In My Opinion, Biggest Enemy in Search Engine Optimization is Algorithmic Update! These update are the biggest threat and many Search Engine Optimizers Finds it The Biggest Threat because Panda Algorithm Destroys all their Efforts!

being way to lazy to get traffic by backlinking and updating my site multiple times a day. Lol

time...because it's an ever going process to build links...and laziness

Misinformation and BS.

Making an enemy in SEO field is bad thing.We have to learn from them .But still i have a barrier in my seo profession .That is Wikipedia .Its hard to beat wiki.

Nice question, Matt!

I believe that the biggest SEO challenge (if not enemy) are multiple traps set up by smart internet marketers who make money offering SEO solutions.

You can't imagine how often I shelled out my hard-earned cash when I was just starting out!

Here are the lessons learned:

1. Don't believe in magic SEO ebooks/tools/services that advocate do-nothing-and-get-all approach. Want it or not, SEO requires time to master. Even if you plan to build a team and outsource certain tasks, you should have a general understanding of how SEO works.

2. Don't spend too much time reading other Internet Marketers' blogs - their aim in most cases is not to educate you, but convert you into a buyer of their own stuff. Rather spy on your competitors or SEO industry trendsetters to see what they really do to build links, increase social engagement.

3. Start real practice as soon as possible - that's the best knowledge you can get. Don't get stuck on the theory stage too long.

4. There is software to bought, there are courses to be taken, there are books to be read - but you should make informed buying decisions about that stuff. When you're starting our, make sure you read http://static.googleusercontent.com/...rter-guide.pdf and get the whole lots of ways free Google tools can assist you with. Because very often beginners would sign up for pricey backlink checkers with the only intension to check their own backlinks! That's ignorance!

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The fact that it exists at all.

SEO shouldn't even exist.

Its existence has totally screwed up marketing as we know it and has to a great degree diverted the attention of marketers away from giving value to...just SEOing everything.

SEO is very DYNAMIC in nature.It feels bad when instead of ranking under 5, the global searches for that keyword decrease.

Google!

James Scholes

I'd say myself. My motivation is sometimes lacking :\

Duplicate content is the biggest enemy in seo which be cause for all things as drop in traffic and drop in ranking as well.

I'll second this one - clients with unrealistic expectations.

It's not my enemy anymore, I got better at it as the time passed - consistency. If you are not consistent with your work, your SEO results will be mediocre at best. Consistency is really key in SEO more than anywhere else.

Conflicting advice and strategies when followed 100%.

Ideally, an SEO strategy needs to be put together of bits and pieces from other strategies. Don't be a sheep, think before you do.

Google Panda Update

My SEO enemy is getting index quicker. Same strategies always do not applicable for all the keywords even competition is about same.