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#1
09-07-2005
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Top 20 SEO Contradications
We all deal with contradictory information each day with SEO. These are a few of my favorite debates that I have daily/ weekly/ monthly. What are your favorite contradictory debates in the SEO industry?
1. All links work vs. Contextual links workI hear it's okay to debate with yourself as long as you don't argue with yourself out loud  Dean's got an interesting take on SEO contradictions as well. Quote:
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09-07-2005
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Well - this discussion http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/...?threadid=7651 identifies a new one:
All Advertising links should be 'nofollow' V Selling themed trusted links predates Google so stop trying to change the web
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#4
09-07-2005
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How about blanket statements about absolutes vs cautious statements about the dangers of absolute statements
Aka, links are the only you need vs content is important and so are links vs content is everything. I think people get their nickers in a knot about SEO when the rules are very simple and pretty much never change: Relevant conent + links = rankings and traffic for head terms. More content with subtle or overt variations = better coverage of tail terms. SEO traffic != converversions. Everything else is mere detail
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#5
09-08-2005
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Black hat's trick search engines vs White hat's don't.
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#6
09-08-2005
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There is only one way -vs- Sometimes Either case is true
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#7
09-08-2005
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Can't see why 5 is a contracdiction since G have this
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#8
09-08-2005
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My personal favorite is "Make your site search engine friendly" VS "Any change to a website for the benifit of a search engine is spam"
and it's close cousin: "SEO's should not spam" vs "All SEO is spam" Needless to say, I disagree with the latter half of both of those statements. But they are commonly used. Ian
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#9
09-08-2005
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Latent Semantic Indexing possible vs impossible
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#10
09-09-2005
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Gilligan is an update - no it's not .
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#14
09-11-2005
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Red Flags
Everything is a RED FLAG to the search engines vs. nothing is a RED FLAG.
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#15
09-11-2005
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My personal favorite because both are wrong:
Adwords will help your organic listings vs. Adwords will hurt your organic listings.
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#17
09-11-2005
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seo contradictions
Keyword density Vs. density doesnt matter
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#18
09-14-2005
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nice, todd.
-seo is simple principles v. seo is a learned science -local search is hype v. local search is inherent in society for centuries -submit v. don't need to submit -duplicate content v. substantially similar content -same ip v. different ip -who is v. who is -if a link to an owned property makes sense, do it v. don't link in family -pr doesn't matter v. the green bar v. relavant links v. tonalinks v. theme v. authorities v. buying v. recip v. anchor consistency v. anchor mix v. link buying companies v. organic link building v. ....oh you get the point ~ it makes one dizzy -seo is becoming corporate v. seo is an organic industry -fixed seo fees v. time and materials -screw clients v. clients. -matt said this v. he is a snitch -affiliate is dead v. i earned 100k last month -sew v. tw v. wmw -ms can win v. ms has its head up its ass -convergence v. who cares we are making money now -mobile v. who cares we are making money now -authorities will win in the end v. the web is the great leveling field -i am a search engine v. i am a portal -i am an idealist standford brainchild v. i am a money hungry giant - i am a small business, rank me one vs. i got another email that said they would guarentee it v. where do these people come from? -SEM is a blimp on the map v. SEM will be my career -we are in another bubble v. we are in the great migration of ad dollars -it is too late v. we are in the first inning -traditional media giants will win the interactive v. they are too big too old and too slow v. they will just buy it up ...muuurrrdddooooccckkk -meta v. h1 v. density v. internal anchor v. page length v. write naturally v. blah blah blah - who are you? find your balance. -pay per call will take off v. no way -broad match rules v. broad matching techniques really hurt most businesses -google wants to go direct to the consumer v. no way, they need us -personalized search v. commercial search v. reasearch v. local v. shopping v. vertical v. every fu***** type of search under the sun v. who cares i am making money now conferences v. conferences v. bar v. camp v. insiders club v. conference lsi v. ontology v. taxononmy v. semantics v. synonyms v. what i just make pages???? -don't put out another damn map announcement v. my grandpa nearly died when he saw google earth less noise v. more signal -this is too fun i wanna keep going v. this is getting ridiculous Last edited by Chicago : 09-14-2005 at 11:35 PM.
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#19
09-15-2005
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After pondering a bit,
To me one of the biggest contradictions in SEM, or is it a schism, is making money via AdWords vs. making money via AdSense Especially Google's role in the whole deal. AdSense burst on the scene relatively recently... and it has spawned an industry in itself... and has given Google many reasons to play politics so it alienates neither advertisers nor publisher partners.
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#20
09-15-2005
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Adsense vs Adwords vs BOTH (using adwords to get adsense-earnings -- and why won't Google allow you to transfer your Adsense-earnings to your adwords-account?)
or Google likes sites with adsense - google doesnt care either way - google doesn't like sites with adsense
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