Comments on: SEO is bullshit http://elihorne.com/develop/seo-is-bullshit/ Design. Develop. Deploy. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:04:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Eli http://elihorne.com/develop/seo-is-bullshit/comment-page-1/#comment-1024 Eli Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:37:23 +0000 http://elihorne.com/?p=404#comment-1024 @SEO - it's not that its necessarily a "problem," but like a lot of SEO techniques, it isn't known exactly how Google and the like will respond to your use of them. Security through obscurity. If you'd like to read more about the history and usage of 30* redirects, check out this page http://www.seobuzzbox.com/understanding-the-301-redirect/ Or just google it! @SEO – it’s not that its necessarily a “problem,” but like a lot of SEO techniques, it isn’t known exactly how Google and the like will respond to your use of them. Security through obscurity.

If you’d like to read more about the history and usage of 30* redirects, check out this page http://www.seobuzzbox.com/understanding-the-301-redirect/

Or just google it!

]]> By: SEO http://elihorne.com/develop/seo-is-bullshit/comment-page-1/#comment-1018 SEO Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:54:27 +0000 http://elihorne.com/?p=404#comment-1018 Hold on for a second. Since when the 301 became a problem to Google??? Hold on for a second.
Since when the 301 became a problem to Google???

]]> By: Eli http://elihorne.com/develop/seo-is-bullshit/comment-page-1/#comment-1017 Eli Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:23:19 +0000 http://elihorne.com/?p=404#comment-1017 I agree. There are certain techniques that have been blacklisted because of abuse by "blackhats," yet still serve a very useful purpose for those with good intentions. It was interesting to note that as I was composing this post, the zemanta tool I use to suggest links and tags was going berserk with innacurrate suggestions that were the clearly the result of SEO abuse. By merely talking about SEO, I made myself available to the full onslaught of "britney spears", "barack obama", and "viagra" suggestions that plague the results list. I agree. There are certain techniques that have been blacklisted because of abuse by “blackhats,” yet still serve a very useful purpose for those with good intentions.

It was interesting to note that as I was composing this post, the zemanta tool I use to suggest links and tags was going berserk with innacurrate suggestions that were the clearly the result of SEO abuse. By merely talking about SEO, I made myself available to the full onslaught of “britney spears”, “barack obama”, and “viagra” suggestions that plague the results list.

]]> By: Chaz http://elihorne.com/develop/seo-is-bullshit/comment-page-1/#comment-1013 Chaz Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:39:58 +0000 http://elihorne.com/?p=404#comment-1013 There's also stuff I consider to be a gray area. For example, I heard from a SEO guy that for a while tons of spam sites were using a 301* redirect. Google's statistical analysis noticed this and it became one of the many variables in their algorithm - a significant enough one that people on the outside noticed. There are tons of legitimate reasons to use 3xx redirects and to an end user there's usually not a difference between one code and another, so webmasters who aren't huge HTTP nerds tend to pick a code arbitrarily. Some people who pay close attention to their rankings but weren't doing shady things stopped using 301 and instead used 302. I don't view that as evil behavior, or at least not as bad as people loading META keywords back in the late 90's. I imagine others disagree with me, though. * I don't remember the actual codes. There were two different 3xx codes. I just picked 301 and 302 to simplify my prose. There’s also stuff I consider to be a gray area.

For example, I heard from a SEO guy that for a while tons of spam sites were using a 301* redirect. Google’s statistical analysis noticed this and it became one of the many variables in their algorithm – a significant enough one that people on the outside noticed. There are tons of legitimate reasons to use 3xx redirects and to an end user there’s usually not a difference between one code and another, so webmasters who aren’t huge HTTP nerds tend to pick a code arbitrarily. Some people who pay close attention to their rankings but weren’t doing shady things stopped using 301 and instead used 302.

I don’t view that as evil behavior, or at least not as bad as people loading META keywords back in the late 90’s. I imagine others disagree with me, though.

* I don’t remember the actual codes. There were two different 3xx codes. I just picked 301 and 302 to simplify my prose.

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