Search engine technologies are amongst the fastest evolving arenas on the Internet. Unfortunately, many webmasters are not keeping pace with this explosive medium. Outdated techniques are still being used with the best of intentions, and unfortunately often produce the worst of results. Webmasters must retool thinking and core SEO competencies to keep pace with the times.
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Aside from a couple of the examples, the word "unethical" seems seriously out of place in that title, unless it was as an example of how using misleading titles can garner attention. I mean, c’mon now, wtf: elongated URL’s, non-301 redirects, Javascript or Flash navigation (poor crawlability), titles that are too long, frame use, and too much HTML on the page. 6 out of 10 of that top 10 is neither SEO nor unethical... it’s just normal webmastering without SEO considerations.
Thats why i entitled it Outdated and Unethical. If it was titled top 10 unethical SEO practices I could see where your coming from but its not.
That’s a misuse of the word "and" then, but aside from that it still doesn’t make sense. Those 6 items are not "Outdated SEO Practices". They never were "SEO Practices" in the first place.
I don’t agree with mvandemar. quote ..."elongated URL’s, non-301 redirects, Javascript or Flash navigation (poor crawlability), titles that are too long, frame use, and too much HTML on the page." This is all SEO. Anything that gets in the way of your content being crawled and indexed means that your site in not optimized. Can a flash site get ranked well in the SERPS? Yes. Is it harder to get a flash site ranked well compared to a site were the content is easily crawled? Absolutely.
Thank you Webclimb for your input :)
No problem. Nit picking your use of the word "and" does not mean that your information was not good.
lol thanks for the support
"No problem. Nit picking your use of the word "and" does not mean that your information was not good." No, no, of course it didn’t. I didn’t mean to imply that just because he misused the word "and" that the information he presented was wrong. I apologize if that’s what you thought I was saying. That’s not the point I was trying to make at all. My point was meant to be about taking newbie advice that has been reprinted time and time again across the Internet for a couple of years now, bundling it as a top ten, slapping on a misleading title, and then mischaracterizing the entire article as a list of "unethical" seo practices (when in fact only four are practices of seo, the other 6 being things people only do if they *don’t* know about seo) to the seo/sem community... that’s the bit that I was trying to call into question.
Okay, i guess i can see your point, my suggestion would be to provide an example of what you believe the title should be versus just disagreeing with the post and that being it. :)
Well, personally I don’t know if I would characterize this as a "top ten" of these (there might be ones that are more important and still widely used, or there might not, dunno), but I would probably say something along the lines of "Top 10 Practices Any Webmaster Interested In SEO Should Definitely Have Learned To Avoid By Now". Still catchy (in my opinion), and true as it pertains to that article. Toss up between "Any" and "Every" for me, btw... they mean about the same thing to me used in a sentence like that, although I’m sure there is a study somewhere suggesting one over the other from a marketing standpoint (or my grammar may even be wrong).
Oh, and "Interested In" could also be "Who Cares About"... again, not sure which is better, although the second one might be aimed at a wider audience.
Not bad, i definitely like the example that you provided :) I would agree that it does pertain to the article a lot better
Bad practices indeed, but there’s a smidge of ’overthinking’ here for one or two of these (something that happens a lot in SEO). Regardless, you can’t really go wrong here. I like these types of posts.
Well the OP stll has the option to edit the title of the post here...
Nice linkbait title. Content, alas, same old same old. Still, you got my click...