Comments on: “Pushed” SEO Case Studies – Does “Old-School” SEO Still Work?

By: webmaster

webmaster — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:08:18 +0000

It’s great seo tutorial. You think very analyticly. But consider that quality site ranks better. The tactics will die anyway. Only qualityweb sites will go up up again.

By: Philly

Philly — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:07:53 +0000

I have to agree that old SEO tactics are still working today. Everyone seems to still be using them. I just started a couple websites and are working on using the old SEO tactics and hopefully it goes well.

By: Eric G

Eric G — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:25:47 +0000

As long as there’s some quality content for humans to see, old-school SEO methods still seem to work. I’m sure Google would like all sites to be ranked commensurately with human judgment, but that’s probably still a ways away.

And your “Hmmm, your comment seems a bit spammy. We’re not real big on spam around here” plugin is a bit bothersome – I’ve had to adjust this comment several times to get it through.

By: Arsham Mirshah

Arsham Mirshah — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:19:43 +0000

I’ve seen this SEO method work best:
Continued content production around keyword research.
One key-word/phrase per page – not stuffed but rather naturally sprinkled thru the copy.
Good internal linking (for the spiders)
Natural in-bound links from credible sources.

I also believe that SEO takes time to realize results …

Lastly – I believe Google does get smarter every day – and thus it will no longer be able the quantity of your content, but rather the quality. That is, they will start taking account how many page views and average time on site.

By: art jewelry

art jewelry — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:12:35 +0000

I think there is an aspect of spider memory. If Google doesn’t see new activity on your site (static pages) and no new inbound links (nofollow or dofollow), then your SERPs could suffer if you are not well established. I know, because if I do not continuously comment on blogs for any long period of time (2-3 weeks), my SERPs begin to be affected.

I’d be curious to see what happens if both sites go quiet for 2 weeks to see which is more sensitive – my guess would be Site1.

By: Ian Campbell

Ian Campbell — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:47:09 +0000

This is like anything else. Sure there are things that Google and the other search engines don’t want to see, but they’re effective, and if you use them to simply pepper your SEO strategy, instead of pouring it on, I’m wouldn’t be surprised if you never got dinged.

On the other hand, the “new school” of SEO, is what’s going to work in the long run, so as you build your strategy, it’d be wise to migrate out of the old habits to stay current.

By: Naar

Naar — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:39:51 +0000

I think that old school with the new school works well.. I noticed if you used social bookmarking sites it gets your site up fast on google but it doesnt stay.. It seems to stay longer with the old school tricks.

By: Tag44

Tag44 — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:10:26 +0000

Thanks for sharing such a wonderful and useful information with us. Keep it up..!!

By: Terry Van Horne

Terry Van Horne — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:45:18 +0000

Ann, nice article and rather timely. I have been thinking about this and decided to document the optimization of my corporate site. I haven’t had a site for years and was lucky enough to get the domain. I plan to demonstrate that inbound links of any kind are not the optimization factor you’d think. Referential integrity, and architecture aspects of sites are the webmasters best friends.

I plan to promote this site the old fashioned way. Build content and get it visibility that draws traffic not links! I will do some of the techniques above but there will be no reciprocal (I have never done that) and only top line directories. The rest will be Social bookmarking and the two old standbys Press releases and to much lesser degree article syndication (top industry blogs)

Checkout the post at
http://www.internationalwebsitebuilders.com/BlogEngine/post/2009/04/22/Do-Domain-Names-Increase-Rankings-Yes!.aspx
where I will be posting the results of each new old school technique

By: Ani López

Ani López — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:58:51 +0000

As long as ‘fair play SEO’ is still giving good results to me I won’t think in another way.
Just a good SEO friendly web (and SEO ready CMS) + fine content optimization is making some of our sites rank better that some of the most important competence sites in Spain.