How can good sites that don’t know about SEO rank well?



Google would appear to favour sites that are built by those who know all the SEO ‘best practice’ techniques (and follow your tips!). There must be many technically poor sites that actually have fantastic content – surely these shouldn’t be penalised? Tinperson, Buckinghamshire, UK

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13 thoughts on “How can good sites that don’t know about SEO rank well?”

  1. Well stated, very true. This video has been very useful for me. Thank you. By the way I am a marketer and I utilize youtube to gain web traffic. Do you want to learn how I do it? I recommend that you visit my channel and learn more about how to become an expert video marketer and rank #1 for any keyword.

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  3. What he is saying is true in my case. I was able to build my first site using a wysiwyg editor and ended up on the first page of google after about 4 months because my content was original and I put a lot of thought into it. I did try to do things right though and had my xml sitemap done and other things like reducing 404's and broken links.

  4. Well, to think of it, Google is like any other directories, for you to appear in the right category in a directory, you need to give them right contents (which at times, these are paid listings). If you don't do anything, they would place you in the category which they think is most suitable. Same thing, if you did not organise or SEO align your site, its hard for Google to understand what keywords would you want your site to be found for.

  5. Very similar to offline, business that have more skill in marketing often have a leg up on those who don't. If someone considers the web a significant potential revenue driver it would be wise to gain some knowledge in how to make a site more visible.

  6. Thanks for the answer. Good video. So the most important thing for webmasters is to build excellent content which will be liked by people searching for that content. My tip for other webmasters is to brainstorm about the content which will be liked and to create high quality content. Focus on the quality on the content – some of the most important things.

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