Obsolete SEO/Website Marketing Practices
June 3, 2008
Wow this could cover a whole lot of ground.
The first one that comes to mind is the use of submission services. I have written about this before as a waste of money, and it is. Since Google, Yahoo, and MSN make up nearly 90% of the search volume in the US these search engines are where your efforts need to be focused. The process is very easy and it’s free.
There was a day, way back before Google hit the scene when using a submission service made sense. Heck, there were hundreds of search engines vying for attention. So one stop shopping made sense, but now the practice is obsolete.
Stuffing your keyword Meta Tag with words unrelated to your website. This practice involved using the hot search topic of the day and placing it in the Keyword Meta tag. Websites would include words like porno or Britney Spears, and it worked.
People searching for porno often would end up at sites like, “Dogs Are Our Business” which was a pet grooming service. The old-timers, as in pre this century, still love to wax poetically about these past adventures. But as search technologies developed these shady tools became obsolete.
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