A long time ago it was easy to achieve a great search engine results position (SERP) with questionable, if not scandalous, SEO tactics. However, over the last decade, search engines have become much smarter spawning algorithms such as Google’s PageRank system and many popular SEO practices have been marked useless. But searching through SEO blogs and forums, you will find many of the outdated strategies are still being hailed as useful techniques. I have put together a list of five SEO strategies that no longer work and offer their useful counterpart.
Meta Tag Optimizing
Meta tags used to reign supreme when it came to search engine optimization and held the key to great results with searches. That boat has sailed. The meta keywords tag was strongly believed to offering valuable information regarding topics and terms used throughout a site. However, malicious site owners abused this tag by flooding it with misleading terms irrelevant to their content.
Useful Counterpart
Google has official stated that they no longer pay any attention to the meta tags for keywords. If you wish to build your pages and posts to rank for more keywords, use category and tagging systems to better label and organize your content. Tagging your content is one of the most effective ways to enhance the overall “searchability” of your site. Carefully structuring your site using categories helps your visitors find exactly what they are looking for and search engines are the same way. You should be able to reach anywhere on your from within three clicks.
Keyword Stuffing
I just told you how the meta keywords tag has been hacked out of the picture in terms of SEO and suggested tagging as the optimum alternative for ranking using keywords. Keyword stuffing is second on the list of dead strategies. A site was ranked by how frequent keywords appeared in a page’s content. Stuffing keywords into a post no longer works and can have a drastically negative effect on your overall ranking.
Useful Counterpart
Write your content the way it is meant to be read, by humans. Too many keywords used so closely together can seem unnatural and difficult to read or understand. Choose wisely where you use them by making sure your keywords are in prominent regions of your web page, like headers, titles, and descriptive text. Be sure to order your header tags (h1 – h6) in the proper order with your keywords and phrases.
Link Exchanges
No need to run around deleting your outbound or inbound links. We are here to improve the web, not unbind it. Exchanging links has always been a great way to funnel traffic into your site from external relevant websites and like other SEO strategies, it has been spoiled by the bad apples. Link exchanging schemes developed and tried to influence how search engines measured the value of site linking.
Useful Counterpart
If you are looking for a solution to build inbound links that point to your website or blog, try offering valuable content or testimonials in exchange for a link back to your site. This adds value to the external website when you give them a testimonial raving about their product or service. You can also offer to guest author on their blog by writing valuable relevant content that will interest their visitors. In return, you will be given a back link to your site.
Search Engine Submission
Have you submitted your site to Google to be crawled? I have. And I have since realized that it was a complete waste of my time. I am still amazed with how many people , including web developers and bloggers, still submit their websites and RSS feeds to search engines to be crawled. Stop it.
Useful Counterpart
Google’s ability to find, crawl, and index new websites is so advanced that the time you spend submitting your site could be used more effectively. Work on placing your back links on social media platforms like Linkedin or Twitter. Twitter is crawled by search engines constantly; so a link to your new site will be discovered quickly. Also try out Ping.fm, which offers the ability to post a link to several social media site simultaneously.
Spamming Blog Comments
Google introduced nofollow link tags to stop search engine spiders from continuing through a link and is know to devalue links within blog comments. This prevents other site and blog owners from leaving irrelevant comments on a post as their main back link building strategy.
Useful Counterpart
Leverage your time with more beneficial content that holds strong value to readers. Well-written, engaging, thought provoking articles will naturally attract quality inbound links from other blogs and new sources that search engines value far more than blog comments.
In summary
The tricks of the trade in search engine optimization are constantly evolving while search engines try to index the web and we try to get indexed. Avoid using any of the SEO tactics above because not only could they harm your ranking but permanently penalize you for banned strategies. For Wordpress bloggers, it’s best to stick with up-to-date SEO tactics on Wordpress Blog Search Engine Optimization.
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(2 comments) July 17, 2010 at 7:32 am
Yes all are true. As you mentioned above search engine submission is no longer valuable, but local business listing is very much helpful for SEO. Local business listing is one of my best offpage activity that I do for my clients.
(8 comments) May 31, 2010 at 3:59 am
Yup, lots of dead SEO strategies out there and they do get mentioned again and again by newbies reading articles from 2005 (and then re-writing them…).
I don’t think link building is bad though. The idea is to create good content and not to spam. Spammy link building is bad. Real link building, for traffic too, is always a good idea.
(31 comments) May 30, 2010 at 12:39 pm
LOL. I remember the first time I submitted a site to Google. I waited months and never saw that site get indexed. I ain’t kidding. I abandoned the site anyway. I only discovered the backlinks way when i decided to give it another try while making plans on earning money online.
Lolz, yes everyone still ask to a newbie to Submit they new blog or site to Google in order to get indexed. Actually they do not need to submit, just let the Search Engine Robots find by itself and it will looks more natural. How? give the site a backlinks from a site that already indexed and done, sure it’s simple. Isn’t UdegBunam?
@CLifton Hatfield
Your article revision from Old SEO to New SEO is good and complete enough. And yes, your article reminds me to stop my few SEO campaign.
(48 comments) May 23, 2010 at 5:28 pm
You’re so right man!
Especially about spamming comments. What’s funny is that most of the people out there new to making money online have absolutely no idea that them spamming comments isn’t actually doing them any good most of the time. Haha.
CJ
(23 comments) May 22, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Enjoy by reading the article and the comment. I have to say one thing regarding to your article. You said that link from twitter, linked in are valuable, but as far as I know they do not pass PR juice as they use nofollow tag. SO how it will help us on SEO? But I know that social bookmarking can help us for boost search engine ranking.
Well I also agree with all the mentioned point. What your opinion on .gov and .edu link? Are they comparability more valuable link than other link?
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(10 comments) May 22, 2010 at 10:30 am
I’ve had a few blogs over the last few years but never worked about seo or backlinks. But I didn’t get much traffic either. I’m guessing my writing style or lack of style is a cause.
I just started my blogs because I like to share what I think and other things I’ve found online. lately I’ve been trying to spend a little more time trying to drive and keep track to one of my sites.
Free time to blog is short, so I focus on one of my blogs and find time after the kids are in bed.
Thanks for this post to help me limit where to spend my time, I’ve started offering guest authors on my site and I have seen an increase in traffic. If your interested in giving a re-emerging blog a guest post, stop by.
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(2 comments) May 21, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Hey Clifton! Excellent post and on a topic that is well overdue.
Didn’t know about meta tags, but that would explain why Thesis 1.7 have left them out of the site options that was available for easy placement in Thesis 1.6 and previous versions.
Keyword stuffing has definitely been dead for quite some time. I do try and focus on LSI when I’m really serious about ranking for a post.
What are your thoughts on LSI?
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(14 comments) May 21, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Thanks George! Thesis knows what is going on.
I think LSI is the only way to keyword optimize a single page. In fact, I am writing a blog post about it as well. It’s Google’s real way of combating the keyword stuffing that I listed above. Therefore, writing naturally for writers to understand will achieve much higher indexing. Great question!
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(14 comments) May 21, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Correction: Writing naturally for readers to understand will achieve much higher indexing.
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(2 comments) May 21, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Awesome. Yes, and you generally don’t really have to think LSI to write LSI, it kinda just happens.
But it’s always good to swap a few words around for extra benefits.
Please tag me on that post on Facebook again (if you don’t mind)
Cheers!
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(246 comments) May 21, 2010 at 3:18 pm
First and foremost, I agree with all points.
That said, don’t actually waste quality time on any, but, hey if for instance you’re dead set on meta keywords and you have a spare minute after writing a post…..slip a few in there, what the hell, some smaller engines might pick them up.
Same with link exchanges – if you come across a decently ranked site willing to give a link (there’s the rub folks), go for it…..just don’t spend much time looking for said site.
The others are dead on. Not only a COMPLETE waste of time, but can get you in trouble; with the search engines, and your online reputation as a whole.
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(49 comments) May 21, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Oh I submit my site to directories, ugh..it was manually, so i submitted step by step. And also i check the page rank of those directories to avoid submitting to “link” farmer. However, i still think old method still helps.
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(7 comments) May 21, 2010 at 5:21 am
No one says that this all above SEO techniques totally not working, they are existing but with lower preference. So, my suggestion is don’t avoid Meta tag and link exchange optimization specially.
(14 comments) May 21, 2010 at 8:54 am
Hey Genite, actually Google has previously stated that they do not use the Keywords meta tag. Now I am not 100% sure on the other search engines but I know that if I optimize for Google, the rest of the engines will follow.
If anyone wants to do simple link exchanges then they can continue to do so. But one way links are much more powerful.
Thanks for the feedback!
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(246 comments) May 21, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Yahoo has also said no to the meta KW
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(20 comments) May 21, 2010 at 2:51 am
Search engines never had to rely upon blog authors. They were asking:
1. For which keyword do you wish to list your site?
2. What should I display the description below the link for your site?
Google was asking, might be, because their algorithm was not that smart to analyze and decide the content. But as you’ve said ‘The sheep has already sailed’,
Thanks for bringing the points to the light. Hope search engines are more useful in days coming.
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(14 comments) May 21, 2010 at 8:56 am
Thanks Suresh for the feedback. I appreciate it.
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(112 comments) May 21, 2010 at 1:03 am
I think some of the sources folks are getting links from are outdated as well. For instance, just today I’ve read a few blog articles recommending getting links from forums, directories, etc.. Although some directories (maybe 3-4) might have some link pop, links from directories and forum sigs are past seo strategies.
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(14 comments) May 21, 2010 at 8:59 am
Great info Colleen! I am really glad you shared this. People also need to remember that just because search engines don’t use them, they may still be good for driving referred traffic to your site. I track my Google Analytics like a hawk, and often I see traffic coming for forums. Thanks for the feedback!
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(170 comments) May 20, 2010 at 11:31 pm
I agree with all but the meta keywords tag. It is true that this is no longer used by Google, however there are still “other” search engines that do and using it does not hurt. All in all, everything else a complete waste of time. Thumbs up
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(14 comments) May 21, 2010 at 9:01 am
Thanks DiTesco! I appreciate the feedback.
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(7 comments) May 20, 2010 at 11:04 pm
Thanks for a wonderful article. I have to say link exchanges are long forgotten. If some one is still doing it – Guys Please Stop. It’s just a waste of time…
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This is a great entry. Keyword stuffing was a silly method to begin with, yes you tank higher but the whole point of ranking higher is to bring in more traffic. But what good is your traffic when they are sick of your content because it appears unatural. You shouldnwrite for your readers not for the search engines. If you write on topic and naturally you’ll have sentences that require your keywords.
Blog commenting is still useful not every blog is nofollow. But the issue to be addressed is spamming a quality comment will attract visitors as well as a good inbound link. That is what many fail to realise.
Voted for on blogengage
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(1 comments) May 20, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Clifton
How does some one find out this info. Being a newbie my mind just boggles at the info and knowledge some of you more mature bloggers know. Thanks for sharing this and helping me to learn more and more. There is no end to the learning curve I fear.
BElinda
(14 comments) May 21, 2010 at 9:03 am
Thanks Belinda. I am really glad you read my article. With time, you will soon be a mature blogger too! Props!
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(1 comments) May 20, 2010 at 1:34 pm
I believe that Meta tags should still be used, but not abused.
But title tags on the other hand are still very important for SEO and should definitely be used.
Just remember to make sure that your content reflects your title tags, meta tags and meta description.
(38 comments) May 20, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Hi Clifton,
Excellent post! The shady old SEO tactics of the past are no longer tolerated. Thanks for sharing the helpful counterparts. I’ll keep them in mind for future blog posts.
Ryan Biddulph
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Awesome Post. There are a lot of people that still use these out dated SEO tactics..like spam comments. Everyday i get more than 100+ spam comments.. lol
.
Thanks for sharing this great post.
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(108 comments) May 20, 2010 at 12:06 pm
I’m actually quite glad these were abused in the earlier web because they would completely ruin what the web is today.
It was really annoying many years ago to land on pages you thought were about a subject but due to keyword stuffing and other tricks you’d be on a completely different page.
What’s worse is you’ll see SEO companies still touting these as tactics used today. Large bulleted services such as metatag optimization – time to get with the times
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(1 comments) May 20, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Wow…things change so rapidly! Thanks for this information. I was still in the dark.
Now I have another AhA moment.
This blog is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Donna Merrill
(53 comments) May 20, 2010 at 11:57 am
Too be honest I don’t think I’ve ever submitted my blog to a search engine, but it is listed in a fair few of them, it’s all a case of if you blog is linked somewhere, then it’s going to get crawled!
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It has been the same for me. Most of my blogs get picked up in Google a day or two after I start them purely because of a link in a forum or a social media link. I laugh when I see people offering to submit your website to ‘100’s’ of search engines.
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It’s quite hilarious when thinking about a lot of bloggers that are really pulling their hair from their heads as they don’t have a clue on how to actually rank. Ok. Maybe I’m too insensitive. I guess this tends to be the case with many internet marketers. The only real big thing that changes in how google ranked websites was the introduction of “wesbite speed”. Other than that everyone online is still speculating how exactly Google keeps changing and adding and tweaking the serps ranking commands.
(232 comments) May 20, 2010 at 11:00 am
Great post. There are a lot of people that still still use out of date SEO tactics. I still use keywords and metatags. But I never keyword stuff. Those kind of tactics are bad news and will hurt any site that implements that style of SEO.
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(14 comments) May 20, 2010 at 11:09 am
Thanks. I appreciate the comment. Do you still use the meta tags for SEO purposes or for other reasons? If other reasons, which reasons are those?
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(232 comments) May 20, 2010 at 11:20 am
Oops reply to the wrong comment…pasting to the correct comment thread.
I do not use them for SEO anymore. I still use them, but I have no real reason off the top of my head. For me, I tend to use them, mainly because its out of habit and its good reference point if I need to look at my keywords again. I never spend but a few minutes setting this up and it doesn’t hurt the site by having them if they are relevant to the site and you are not stuffing them.
What are your reason for using them?
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Thanks for this. SEO basically boils down to two things these days, it seems:
1. Well written, relevant content.
2. Backlinks.
For now. My one question is, what about Yahoo, AOL and that Microsoft product? Do they ignore the keywords as well?
(14 comments) May 20, 2010 at 10:59 am
Good point, Phil. Those are two very important parts of SEO. As for the other search engines, I don’t worry too much about them because once you master Google’s methods, the rest will follow suit.
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(50 comments) May 20, 2010 at 10:39 am
Great article. I agree that many of the SEO tactics from the past are no longer relevant to Google, and many of the other search engines. I still use keyword tags anyway. It may not help much, but it doesn’t hurt you either. There are other search providers than Google, and some of them still give some credit to your tags, although not much.
I do agree with your views on content. Search is more about creating content for your readers. If you write for them, and build plenty of relevant links, you will get the traffic that you need to succeed.
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(14 comments) May 20, 2010 at 10:43 am
Thanks James. I definitely still use the keywords and description meta tags but not for SEO reasons. You are right, it won’t hurt but they are more effective in other areas. When someone bookmarks or shares your post on social media sites like Facebook or Digg, they pull excerpts of your post from the keywords and description meta tags. Thus, it is important to still have them, but they aren’t going to improve your SEO directly. Thanks James, I really appreciate the feedback.
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(232 comments) May 20, 2010 at 11:18 am
I do not use them for SEO anymore. I still use them, but I have no real reason off the top of my head. For me, I tend to use them, mainly because its out of habit and its good reference point if I need to look at my keywords again. I never spend but a few minutes setting this up and it doesn’t hurt the site by having them if they are relevant to the site and you are not stuffing them.
What are your reason for using them?
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(2694 comments) May 20, 2010 at 10:46 am
I am also still using Keyword tags on this blog, I just can not stop this habit
I do the same Hesham. The thing is that while Google may not use them, other search engines still might and since it is already built into Wordpress it only takes a couple of seconds to fill out.
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(2694 comments) May 20, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Exactly Thomas, and you now… some times I feel that Google can game with us at any time by changing they rank blogs of articles, I have no trust anymore
and yes it doesn’t take too much time, I also use ScribeSEO content plugin which tells me about what keywords, meta tags I should add and use depending on the topics and keywords..etc, it’s pretty good tools to remind me!
We have to do what we have to my friend, just in case Google will change his mind latter
(11 comments) May 20, 2010 at 10:31 am
Nice!
, you get to eat your care and have it when dropping comments.
However, you forgot to mention CommentLuv, and KeywordLuv… they actually do go a long way
Also, I’ll be honest, I still submit my RSS feed to Google on their webmaster tools and it’s doing quite fine for me, so I ain’t complaining. I think the main thing with submitting RSS feeds is they should be updated regularly, that way it automatically would download your feed every few hours or so.
Good stuff Clifton…
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(14 comments) May 20, 2010 at 10:51 am
Thanks Tola! Yes, there are so many wonderful ways to improve SEO. My article was geared to educate people on the methods that are no longer effective. I also submit my RSS feed to Google’s Webmaster Tools because I can easily track my index pages and errors. It’s a great place to view everything at once. But submitting to other search engines can become a waste of time. Like I always say, master Google and the rest will follow.
Thanks again for your feedback. I really do appreciate it.
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(2694 comments) May 20, 2010 at 10:51 am
If Clifton wrote everything in his article then you won’t be able to add anything new to it
You have no idea how much comments we pay attention to comments, and I personally consider it part of the article, also search engines think the same, I have experienced that comments drive visitors to blogs if comments has they keywords they are searching for!
(11 comments) May 21, 2010 at 3:03 am
Really?? I didnt know the search engines paid attention to comments like that…
Thanks for the heads up!
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(25 comments) May 20, 2010 at 10:31 am
Spamming Blog Comments still work. But these days you need to comment 10 times more than before.
Anyways, good post.
PS: I am totally against Spamming Blog Comments.
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(14 comments) May 20, 2010 at 10:33 am
Thanks Agent. Spamming comments can be an effective way to increase traffic to your blog or site but it won’t help with SEO, especially if the nofollow attribute is used. Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it.
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(59 comments) May 20, 2010 at 10:24 am
I pretty much agree with everything here except the point about on using keywords in content for ranking. Keywords in content show relevance which is an important ranking factor.
Of course you shouldn’t go over the top balls to the wall with it, but use some keywords to show the search engines what the pages is about.
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(14 comments) May 20, 2010 at 10:37 am
Hey Gerald, I also saw your Retweet. I 100% agree with you that keywords within a single page is very important. However, they need to be used in a strategic method and not slapped into every sentence. I want to be sure people understand that their keywords need to be placed in their most effective areas like header tags. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.
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(51 comments) May 20, 2010 at 11:11 am
I agree about using keywords strategically. The way I do it, is I use them naturally through out the content of the site / article. I also follow this method when creating titles. I also agree with you about not over using the keywords. Once again keywords should be used naturally, if you constantly and purposely use the same keywords over and over again, this isn’t natural. Not only is it not recommended for SEO, but it is also considered a bad idea when writing good content.
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(14 comments) May 20, 2010 at 11:14 am
You said it best! Thanks!
(2694 comments) May 20, 2010 at 11:20 am
I got sick when someone submit a guest post that stuffed! I had to edit his/her post over and over to reduce the keywords stuffing
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