Comments on: Five SEO Mistakes Guaranteed to Lead to Your Failure – Wil Reynolds, Part 3 of 3

By: Steve Mayes

Steve Mayes — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:58:46 +0000

You are so right about focusing on the conversions after you begin getting rankings and traffic. Conversions is what it is all about anyway right? Thanks for reminding me.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:37:14 +0000

EXCELLENT article. Focus on what’s important, not on what everyone is saying, And never forget the golden rule……… content is still KING!
Super article. Thanks for sharing.

By: Stratoblogster

Stratoblogster — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:04:12 +0000

It takes lots of content — whether pages or blog posts. Lots of it. Relevant titles and info.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:03:22 +0000

Patience is the key to SEO, you can’t expect to see results in days or even weeks. SEO takes time and unless you have time to dedicate to a project you should look else where to make a living.

By: Reed

Reed — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:30:03 +0000

When I first got into the whole “online stuff” I made the mistake of overloading myself with SEO knowledge. Not only did information overload cause “innaction” on my part, it caused me to stray away from the #1 factor of a TRULY successful website. It isn’t how many links you have or pagerank, the #1 factor of a truly successful website is “having content your customer craves.”

If your doing your job in supplying quality content your customer craves then they’ll do all the marketing for you. They’ll link to it on forums, blogs, and bookmark it. No linkbuilding on your part.

The only thing I’ve ever really done is submit to directories, that’s as far as my linkbuilding goes.

You have so much more time to focus on creating killer content when you aren’t worrying about SEO BS.

By: hanji

hanji — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:08:21 +0000

As someone that has been in the web development arena, and am currently wrapped in the SEO world, this post is great. It really hit some good points.. specifically NOT wasting time on Twitter/FB, arguments, etc about SEO. Less talking and more doing!!!

I should stop this comment now.. and get to work.
hanji

By: SEO India

SEO India — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:01:41 +0000

I think, the essay is about mistakes made by SEOs and their clients / followers rather than SEO mistakes. What you said is there are thousands of SEO practitioners, they spend their time on twitter mostly and they never accept their wrong doings. SEO practitioners are quacks compared to all others involved with web. Thanks for these insights!

By: ProCW

ProCW — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:16:14 +0000

Very well written and an excellent post!

What I’ve gotten from this is:

1. Don’t follow up with SEO drama. This can lead to an upstaging of your paging.

2. If you cannot view fairness through the eyes of the beholder, you can at least follow what the beholder has to say. Then again, you may choose no-follow.

3. If you’re all wrapped up in rankings, give yourself a spanking. Content is key for me and for thee. For this I’m really thanking!

4. The turtle should stay at the turtle’s pace if the turtle wants to win the race. At least until the turtle learns how to hop.

5. A link gopher can help to find a hole-in one-hundred.

Again, thanks!!!

By: Kelvin L

Kelvin L — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:46:51 +0000

I truly agree with that. I personally don’t really care much about PageRank stuff. It means nothing. Get the direction right is most important at all time for anything.

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:42:45 +0000

“Every minute you spend chiming in and reading their banter is one less minute you spent on…

LOL, I had to contemplate if I really wanted to read any further. Thanks for the great tips. =)