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What if Google taught SEO?
I’m sure you’ve seen this headline by now if you subscribe to any newsletters related to internet marketing. The email goes on to endorse the VEO Report, about creating sites for visitors instead of normal SEO. Hence the name, Visitor Enhanced Optimization.
This ebook is supposedly endorsed by Google, in that Matt Cutts (a G employee) was interviewed for the creation of this book. Matt also gave permission for some snippets of their conversation to be revealed in the book. So great, it’s endorsed by Google. Google also provides free guides about things such as working with Adsense. Did just reading that guide skyrocket your Adsense income?
Think about this, too. Every time an ebook comes out exposing some secret method of increasing your income, everyone and their mother start to do it. And Google notices. And promptly changes their algorithms to decrease any effect of the technique. Take article writing and submission, for instance. Once that became popular, Google simply devalued links from article websites and increased penalties for duplicate content.
What scares me is that building websites for the visitor is how I build my main sites. That’s how I started out, for two reasons: 1, I was a website visitor more than a marketer, and 2, I didn’t even know what SEO was. So if people start overusing these methods, could we see a change for Google to make these methods less useful? Is it possible that the big G would screw with internet marketers at the expense of their visitors? Maybe, maybe not. You never really know these days.
And now that I’m thinking about these algorithm changes, who says that Google isn’t already changing their algorithms to make this VEO less effective? Maybe that’s the only reason that Matt Cutts allowed some of his stuff to be published - he knew that Google planned to change the stuff anyway! Man, wouldn’t that be a low blow?!
Notice I didn’t say I read the book, so maybe it is awesome. I don’t know. Colin McDougall did make a nice site supposedly using these VEO methods, and amazingly it has some very nice rankings. So if everything is true, damn right it’s worth $79 to know how to create websites that get great rankings fast, all without worrying about SEO!
But there are two questions: 1, is it all good info without hype? and 2, will you actually put any of the info into practice?
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Hey Mr/Ms. Internet Marketing Sucks,
Yeah, this is an awesome domain! It is catchy…sometimes internet marketing does suck
That’s why I found it necessary to go meet Matt Cutts. For some reason Matt could see I was not the typical “spammer dude” and graced me with the honor of speaking to him. (Matt is a really cool guy btw)
I listened carefully to what he told me and acted upon the advice he gave. And would ya look at that, I have a site ranking in Google following Matt’s advice (which I transcribed into notes which became The VEO Report).
Putting the info into practice is the key to success. Is acheiving rankings in Google in a very competitive topic hype…Yeah, I guess it is.
Is it a matter of pushing buttons and shooting to the top…No!
In my opinion, internet marketing has become much easier…It’s different but easier…The shift to VEO strategies must happen fast for those who think “Internet Marketing Sucks” (Again, what a cool domain!)
Signing off for now…
Colin
It’s always an honor to attract the attention of an ebook’s author
‘Tis always an honor to be mentioned
Working late cuz sometimes life just is more fun than internet marketing
I get a bit fed up with those “do this…push that button and make a lot” type of folks.
There is no push button solution in what I preach but some really solid advice to get natural search traffic.
Following my own advice I manage to get rankings on Crediteria.com on terms like credit card reviews.
Sometimes I show up on credit card applications, best credit cards - But what I really like is the continous growth in traffic on the “oddball” search terms which was what I was initially aiming for. There’s more search terms that I appear for and what’s really cool is I don’t notice any drop in income when the big terms temporarily drop while Google tinkers with their algo. Somehow my site always seems to rebound on the big words…
Back to some work on neglected affiliate sites, then off to bed as I have some serious goofing off to do in the morning
I think SEO is pure crap…. it’s not based on logic or the interests of true internet marketers i.e. people that rely solely on the internet for income.
“Unique content” is the way to go now simply because people are not able to mass generate it anymore - unless, of course, you’re one of Google’s lucky partners.
Matt Cutts may be a nice guy, but I can’t stand people that don’t give straight answers and do what they please simply because they have a monopoly in regards to search engines.
It comes down to this - control… there is simply too much money available on the internet and it was too easy to become rich… something had to change, and unfortunately, without warning, the smaller people got screwed and the big Google partners flourished… but that’s how the cookie crumbles.
Hey if google taught internet marketing they would want you to do it the right way speaking of which mayb you ought to check this site out it helped alot with internet marketing it also has a bunch of neat stuff about the new pipeline profits system in the book and of course the ever day IM, ebay , website marketing stuff that rocks http://www.build-riches.com
Palmer…
You’re either a spammer or just stupid. That link you posted goes to another rip-off site.
I only left that comment in because it is a good example of sites to avoid
yeah colin learnt the hard way.. his method is just dont do heavy seo thats all in a nutshell.. you have to do some.. you cant throw it all out the window