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{Weekly Discussion} Whats your SEO Myth or Bad Habit is your SEO Pet Peeve?
What SEO myths do you hate or drive you crazy the most? Or, what things do people do that they think is good for SEO that drives you crazy
- Duplicate Content Myth
- Meta-Keywords
- Keyword Stuffing
- Schema on every page
- Meta-Description
- Not having an HTML Sitemap
- Looong Page Titles
- ….
State your myth as a single entry so people can vote for it and comment under it with your thoughts
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Meta-Description
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Meta-Keywords
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Semrush data 😂 specifically on volume, like we have to use this keywords because it has high volume
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Google never uses my meta descriptions & it really grinds my gears
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Disavow links tool.
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CoRe WeB ViTaLs (they’re an unrealistic standard that are a nice to have not need to have, and exploited by agencies as a buzzword when their own websites don’t pass them)
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You need to buy backlinks to be successful in SEO.
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When people have “SEO tricks” or “hacks” like they’ve somehow outsmarted the Google algorithm. It’s not a hack, it’s just strategically writing content that Google will deem as “good”
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Variations on a theme, and these may be controversial.
* **There is only value in #1 ranking.** We build a lot of value for our clients by accruing healthy ranks, but not always #1. (I understand the value of #1 ranks so don’t @ me, but so many SEOs put all their eggs in one #1 rank basket- and that’s bad strategy).
* **#1 ranks guarantee success.** One of my favorite personal early successes was #1 rank for the term bikini for a client. And the results were sad for the effort. Just didn’t have the right selection of products (size/price/style) to make the rank profitable. Tankinis paid way better.And separately-
* **The perception you own your rank.** IE, once you get it, clients expect that it just is theirs.
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I can’t stand the link bros and others who spend more time manufacturing signals than actually doing what SEO is about: satisfying search intent.
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Duplicate Content and IDKW
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Flesch-Kincaid readability scores
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“Near me” being used as a keyword.
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that you can be successful in SEO without backlinks. how this stupidity started I’ll never know.. well I guess I know it was from all the hacky gurus the past 10-15 years shilling that crap because it made anyone feel like they can do it. if you think that is true because you have rankings and are doing well you are playing in a very weak niche and your definition of success is waay out of whack. you don’t need to *buy* links but you need them if you want to compete for real and that’s where you’ll find the type of success that you can retire early on.
added: this is also exactly why every Google update is terrifying to you
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