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{Weekly Discussion} Whats your SEO Myth or Bad Habit is your SEO Pet Peeve?
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I’d say keyword stuffing. I don’t know the exact interaction but unnatural text, scaled by LLMs, I get it, it’s necessary for efficiency, but it destroys the soul of the internet that I remember in the naughts. Call me a sentimental fool, but yeah, we’ve clearly passed that point.
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BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
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My biggest pet peeve is page speed. not only has Google told us it’s the smallest possible weight any signal can get, but it’s not something most SEOs are equipped to even discuss. It’s a number we can measure, but it’s usually not beneficial to make minor improvements.
I’m really tired of SEOs pasting the output of a pagespeed insights report without being able to say what exact render blocking scripts to remove, or what exact unused scripts are firing, or what exactly to minimize and how. If you don’t understand any of that stuff, you aren’t qualified to make the recco.
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my pet peeve is how non-seo people in an organization cherry-pick “SEO rules” and then still get them wrong. I then have to not treat them like an idiot for the nth time of me taking the time out to explain something to them that they really don’t need to know (other than to use their lack of knowledge to push work off their plate).
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That you need header tags on every single page.
That you need a title and description on every single page.
That you need to increase that page speed score from 90% (or 80% or 70%) to get a boost in rankings
That you need to shave 0.1 more seconds off your page load to boost rankings
That you can believe everything about SEO that Google says
Edit Forgot some:
That DA and PA are valid metrics
That 3rd party tools have some sort of secret knowledge about ranking algos that we don’t.
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Buying links can be extremely effective. You just have to know what to buy. There’s a big difference between link sellers who do the work vs those who are working with spam networks; those networks are getting crushed from deindexing per last 1.5 yrs of Google updates – way before Aug & Sept 2023+ updates. Really have to vet. I used to be a link seller for years for industry influencers – challenging market to be a gig person.. Your link network is your best asset atm.
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Link schemes, buying links, etc. or that content doesn’t matter.
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SEO packages
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Myths? Content is king. I literally crafted my podcast around exposing this myth.
Plenty of absolutely brilliant content doesn’t rank.
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The self-proclaimed gurus, ninjas, savants and warlocks. I met an “SEO Overlord” once. He had it on his business card.
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Why do people think duplicate content is a myth ?
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must be Meta-Description
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“content is king” you don’t even need to be someone working on seo to know this is a myth. you just have to be someone who uses search engines a lot and you’ll realize that google probably doesn’t care about content quality
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It’s incredible how some SEO misconceptions persist despite being debunked repeatedly. One that really irks me is the fixation on meta-keywords. Despite search engines abandoning them for ranking long ago, there’s still a belief that cramming them with keywords will boost visibility. Equally frustrating is keyword stuffing, which not only fails to improve rankings but can also incur penalties. And the unnecessary use of schema markup on every page? It should be targeted strategically, not scattered haphazardly. In the ever-changing realm of SEO, it’s crucial to discern fact from fiction and focus on tactics that genuinely make an impact.
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seo being organic , really really? its damn money sucking blackhole 🤣 if u really wanna be on top.
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