Why People Hate SEO?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by afoley77, Feb 22, 2013.

  1. #1
    Hi friends,
    I don't hate SEO, but many of us hate SEO. Why they hate SEO? What would be the reasons behind their hate? Share your suggestion..
    Your suggestions will help them to find out benefits of SEO and also for SEO experts to more improve their SEO..
    Thanks....
     
    afoley77, Feb 22, 2013 IP
  2. WebDev Solutions

    WebDev Solutions Well-Known Member

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    Hating SEO would be completely nonsensical for any website owner- why would they hate something which ultimately brings them organic traffic when done right?

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    WebDev Solutions, Feb 22, 2013 IP
  3. afoley77

    afoley77 Active Member

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    #3
    As a visitor or customer, what do you think?
     
    afoley77, Feb 22, 2013 IP
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    Cedricmarkwatson Member

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    #4
    If you hate SEO then I would like to give you suggestion, should leave this field because without SEO your blog can't grow.
    Now-a-day SEO is a very important for website/blog because SEO is a great way to connect to million of visitors and you can get more traffic, which is good for your business as well as you site/blog. It is totally free but depend on your effort.
     
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  5. lm560

    lm560 Peon

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    I think you ask a very good question and there is not good enough answer for this...........
    Because of my experience SEO is the best way to get more traffic but not only................
    But permanently need solution for traffic then it will be SEO..............................................
    But many people not know what is the basic patterns of SEO and what is the required search engine from you. Maximum number of people do lots of fancy backlink project for his website and he get some pr or traffic but remember if you not have any quality content then it will be vanished in no time....that's for lots of people think it is a worth's way to get traffic... Please told them that SEO is not required any blog commenting, forum commenting etc that are really work before but it's are not working anymore....

    Thanks in advanced
     
    lm560, Feb 22, 2013 IP
  6. John B.

    John B. Member

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    SEO is not bread and butter for everyone.Most people will agree that it takes more than time,money or even commitment to successively and effectively achieve SEO goals.You need to have a well designed website,page or even a blog and as if this is not enough,you have to supply quality article to your sites consistently. By quality content, meaning you need to use tools like Google adwords tool to generate quality and authoritative keywords from which you will weave contents that internet spiders will be able to crawl more easily .You are not done yet !You have to have keyword analysing tools like GeoRanker to monitor how effective your SEO campaign is and also how your rivals are ranking on those keywords.You need to also generate reports occasionally to know whether you are working yourself out all for nothing.

    Why would anybody not hate SEO ? However,we can only overlook the importance of SEO at our own online peril !
     
    John B., Feb 22, 2013 IP
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  7. johneva

    johneva Well-Known Member

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    The people who hate SEO are people who hate being spammed to death by SEO companies offering 1st place in google for $50 ect. People who don't actually have a clue what they are doing and making false promises because they managed to rank for a strange keyword like "Purple Frogs Stafford" and seem to think they are able to rank any given search term for that little money.

    The world of SEO is full of people who think they are experts when in reality they have a very very limited knowledge about SEO and other internet marketing methods.

    Cheap nasty SEO companies who spam pages with keywords over and over and over so the page is horrible for any user to actually use the website.

    Look at this forum, mostly "SEO Experts", yet most of the threads in this forum are totally pointless asking lame questions with even more lame responses from people wanting to build their post count for some dumb reason.

    Surely an SEO expert would not need to ask what an img alt attribute is or what a title is or how to make SEO friendly URL's ect. Yet I see it day in day out on this forum so called experts who have links to their company in there sig yet asking questions I would expect someone who does not even work in SEO to know.
     
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  8. summerology

    summerology Greenhorn

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    Hmm.. I think it's like this; Google hates only Black Hat SEO and what people really hates isn't SEO but those spammers. I hope it makes sense.
     
    summerology, Feb 22, 2013 IP
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    mhk1976 Greenhorn

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    Without understanding the purpose of SEO many people can hate seo. I love seo.
     
    mhk1976, Feb 22, 2013 IP
  10. webcosmo

    webcosmo Notable Member

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    Besides the benefits of SEO, as being the ONLY mean to get permanent traffic, achieving results is very time consuming, money and also needs great commitment. I don`t think people hate SEO, they hate just how hard it is to reach one`s goals.
     
    webcosmo, Feb 22, 2013 IP
  11. the_mirror

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    because they didn't know what is SEO, if they knew it, i'm sure, they will loved it.
     
    the_mirror, Feb 22, 2013 IP
  12. Spoiltdiva

    Spoiltdiva Acclaimed Member

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    Some people become frustrated at how long it can take to get it all done, and of course may not like how much it can cost. But "hate"?........that would be illogical to hate something that you require and requested.
     
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    mediapak Well-Known Member

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    I don't think anyone hates SEO, People only hate the spammers who are using black hat SEO tricks and spamming software tools and other stuff to make a hurdle in real work done by white hat SEO.
     
    mediapak, Feb 22, 2013 IP
  14. Jim4767

    Jim4767 Prominent Member

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    It was when I began to apply always-white-hat SEO to my website that traffic began to rise sharply.
     
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  15. Alex-Gopson

    Alex-Gopson Greenhorn

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    Seems like the only people that hate SEO are those that don't really understand it.

    Many of the instances when you see people complaining about SEO, it's people associating spam blog comments and things of that nature to it, and those people then fail to take into account that there is another side to it.
     
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  16. MikeQ

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    If you love SEO, you would get benefit of this.

    If you hate SEO you wouldn't get the benefit........ this is easy to understand.
     
    MikeQ, Feb 22, 2013 IP
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    They hate SEO because they are afraid of working. SEO requires a lot of effort and people tend to go the easy way.
     
    Alex jones, Feb 22, 2013 IP
  18. xtremseller

    xtremseller Greenhorn

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    The SEO way is so long and have to wait each result. Although it is marketing way so I think it is painful too. So man this is not like very much.
     
    xtremseller, Feb 22, 2013 IP
  19. azharSEO

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    Many Peoples are doing Spamming work, in which they cannot reach a good result, So they hat SEO.
    and some Peoples are doing quality work,according to Google updates, they reach a good result with patience..and Happy with their client.
     
    azharSEO, Feb 22, 2013 IP
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    People hate SEO because it takes lots of time to get traffic. Sometimes a website takes 4 to 6 months to get first position in a high competition keyword. in 4 to 6 month or more period mostly people are totally disappeared. Therefore, People hate SEO.
     
    Bilal Ali, Feb 23, 2013 IP