Are You Over-Optimizing Your Pages?

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

If you’ve been studying dozens of ‘Search Engine Optimization’ techniques and applying them to your web pages, chances are that you are over-doing it. Like a lot of things on the web, what is true today was not true a few months or years ago. Have you been building web-sites for 2, 3 or more years? If you learned how to optimize your pages for highest rankings in Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, ASK and so on, chances are you learned your craft a bit too well. The web-marketing world has evolved into a new beast in just the last 2-3 years. The SEO rules have changed. Read through some of our older posts or pages about how to optimize websites or pages. As recent as 2006, we were telling you to build short 150-350 word, punchy, keyword stuffed pages, using each and every SEO trick conceivable (as long as it [Click Title to read more...]