This essentially comes down to quantity vs quality. Keyword research, link building etc. helps you optimize for your time. You can achieve the same traffic from fewer posts. Otherwise you have to keep churning out posts and make up for it in terms of long tail traffic.
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#12tldr; Don't try to fool google. It take genuine efforts with quality of your content to be on top of SEO.
Given the quality of the search results I've seen recently, I feel like Google has made the ranking almost random... it's only within the past few years that I've had a lot more of "I'm pretty sure there's more information on this out there, but Google isn't showing it ot me" experiences.
I've had that feeling too, but I wonder if it's because the good old Internet of enthusiasts enthusiastically posting about the things that enthuse them has given way to the faceless content farms to such an extent that even Google isn't able to filter the signal out from the noise. I.e., I wonder if it is not so much their fault for being less good than they used to be as it is their fault for not being so much better than they used to be.
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#13tldr; Don't try to fool google. It take genuine efforts with quality of your content to be on top of SEO.
In other words: SEO doesn't work anymore.
Depends what you mean any rando cant just rock up and get position 1 for "car insurance" probably true.
But improve the performance for a site absolutely or get the right traffic to the right geo version of your page yep (bloody hard work I might add)
Ikea is having a bit of a problem in this area at the moment for example.
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#15This always puzzle me about SEO. Let's say you are writing an article that you want to cover in-depth. Which one is better for SEO (both options has the same content):
A. Publish all in one long article
B. Publish in a series of small articles
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#16There are no specific stats in this article about what exactly we mean by SEO and traffic. What do you want to do with 1m visitors per month? Make money from them or sit back happy that people read your content? Run a business, or a blog? What is the end goal here, have a well read blog with no specific niche/topic? In that case SEO probably can be organic.
But if you are a business dependent on some google traffic for your business, and your competitors are optimising for keywords and building links, you are probably going to have a super hard time winning. It's not impossible, but you have to a magnificent job just concentrating on content to beat out your competition.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Title is a bit 2 clickbait 4 me. [edit] Oh, they declickbaited it on HN, removing the digits. That's nice.
Yup. I never waste time on summary blog posts, X things blablabla.
I agree, I never click on such clickbaits. Judging from the comments, it was (yet again) a good decision..
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#18any idea about monthly unique visitors ...??
daily posting one of the best seo tricks, which i learned form Matt Cutts
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#19This always puzzle me about SEO. Let's say you are writing an article that you want to cover in-depth. Which one is better for SEO (both options has the same content): A. Publish all in one long article B. Publish in a series of small articles
C. Publish in a series of small articles and give up after the second one, leaving it incomplete forever