Earlier this week, Seth Godin wrote a catchy blog post about how to make money online. While there were several worthy points to remember, one that struck out to me was, “Hang out with people who aren’t looking for shortcuts. Learn from them.“.
SEO is filled with the notion that there are shortcuts. When I first started SEO consulting it felt like the reason a large percentage of companies were interested in SEO was because they believed it was a shortcut to online marketing success (it was free, right?). They forgot the time element that factored into the cost of “good SEO”.
- Trying to optimize pages without a keyword and marketing strategy in mind
- Ignoring the SEO details (like cross-links, ALT properties, filenames, etc) even though the opportunity presents itself for implementation
- Buying links purely for keyword rankings ...








