Comments on: Web Success Without SEO Works: How I Entered the Top 10 for SEO Blog

By: Ken of Jax SEO Works

Ken of Jax SEO Works — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:43:13 +0000

Congratulations on your success.
A very interesting and free-thinking experiment.
I believe you have been a pioneer in finding new ways to promote yourself and your site on the Internet, using a variety of non-traditional methods, including social media platforms (which have become more widely recognized as valuable communication media).
A good message; quality over quantity, and reputation over traffic.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:27:49 +0000

well i guess try different methods out, get to know the effects and then go for the one that yeilds the highest, run with it until you run out of resources or it becomes obsolete.

By: game4power

game4power — Sun, 10 May 2009 07:37:57 +0000

When I started with SEO – last yers – SEO 1.0 had rulles that where aplied no matter language. What you proclame to be SEO 2.0 (don’t get me wrong, I totally agree with this taxonony, I even like it and I will use it) it was in fact secondary set of rulles for good seo in SEO 1 packeage, if I may say so. Tha change is that the first package (meta, link directoriesadn stuff) dosn’t seem to count now.

Any way, by all means, Google should came out with a more accurate set of rulles for SEO mastres. This is my opinion.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:23:44 +0000

This is one hell of the post. Thank you. I’m SEO developer and the subject you hightlighted here was greatly useful and interesting to me. I think I can use all it in my future work. Please continue your work.

By: jack

jack — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:48:14 +0000

Yes I agree with you, linked out to relevant sites do help, as long as the spider not come to you site and dead end. SEO is all about spider linking to each other.

By: dayat

dayat — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:04:26 +0000

great post, I especially found it useful where did you stated…

By: Dave Wheelock

Dave Wheelock — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:38:44 +0000

I see SEO 2.0 thrown around a lot lately as well as comment on SEO 1.0 are dead. Sure, automatic submission and software based solutions are dead and have been for several years, but there are still many concepts in SEO that we started using years ago and that still work (even a few you used in this post)…

I do agree that social networking helps tremendously, but it’s main benefit is still link building. It’s just a different method.

You used most of the methods of traditional landing page optimization in this blog post. 1. You’ve repeated the keyword phrase ‘SEO Blog’ (helped ya out there) a good number of times as well as repeated the separate words dozens of times throughout the page.
2. The keywords are in the URL
3. You’ve used the keywords in H1 tags and bolded, quoted, otherwise highlighted them in the post as well.
4. The additional content (google ads, navigation text links, and ads) are all targeted toward your keywords.
5. Your visitor comments are helping out as well.

While you wouldn’t be ranked where you are without the help of your social media efforts to get link sources that have SEO blog (helped twice) in their anchor text, you can’t rule out the stock and standard SEO techniques you used for the page design and content.

With that said, I feel that traditional SEO is alive and thriving. Without it as a base for your site, your social marketing efforts wouldn’t get anywhere…

By: Lucian Sava

Lucian Sava — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:33:57 +0000

this SEO 2.0 is NOT fair. This SEO 2.0 so called tehniques are based on StumbleUpon, Sphinn, Mixx, Twitter, Social|Median – which are english speakers social networks. I don’t know any nonEnglesh social networking that is treated by Google as StumbleUpon, Sphinn, Mixx, Twitter, Social|Median are.

Any way, by all means, Google should came out with a more accurate set of rulles for SEO mastres. This is my opinion.

By: Bruce > The BIG Desk

Bruce > The BIG Desk — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:28:48 +0000

That’s pretty impressive. I’ve had a few blogs in the past where I’ve tried SEO techniques. I grew bored with it. Now I write mainly for myself; I no longer stuff posts with keywords or go mental with articles & directories. You know what – I’m having way more fun with it. Not sure if money or traffic will arrive some day – don’t reaaly care.

By: Gregor

Gregor — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:02:55 +0000

Good work – it’s far to easy to just focus on the SEO and not on the content and interaction with your followers.

Keep up the great work!