What is the worst SEO Advice you have ever received? There's so much bad advice out there it is hard for me to start, but I'll quickly mention some... Mass submitting the same content to multiple places, especially low quality sites (bad links suck). Wasting time on Keyword Density. Keyword Stuffing and other on-page over-optimization. Submitting my site to major Search Engines. Waste of time in my opinion. SEs are designed to find your site on their own. Submitting my site to thousands of tiny unknown Search Engines. Waste of time in my opinion. SEs are designed to find your site on their own. Mass reciprocal linking with any site that will trade links. Google picks up on this and penalizes for mass reciprocal linking. Investing in creating profiles on third party sites enmass to get backlinks. Most links don't get registered and it creates a dodgy backlink profile. Much better areas to invest in link building. This is just based on my own experience, I pull in a few hundred thousand Google visitors each month. Feel free to debate and add your examples of bad SEO advice.
i totally agree search engine submission is wasting time, and that's not the SEO. For the keyword density, it still affect the SEO but if the content is great enough, it can be ignored
Submitting my site to thousands of tiny unknown Search Engines. Waste of time in my opinion. SEs are designed to find your site on their own. - i don't do this.
Definitely good info, don't waste your time with spammy type tactics. Go for quality backlink sources. If you can get 1 quality back-link a day its better than 100 low quality links.
The worst SEO advice I ever received was actually good advice except for the fact that they forgot to mention in moderation. I was told that if I bookmarked my sites to a bunch of bookmarking sites that it would increase my rankings, what it did was get me banned by Google for 3 months. The key to bookmarking is using different accounts, ip addresses, about 10 bookmarks a day max and different titles and descriptions
Yes moderation takes you a long way, as well as a lot of variation when using link building tactics. Focusing on real editorial citations from authority sites by producing great content has been the most effective strategy for me and it is what I recommend the most, especially for pumping up the rankings of your website sitewide. It's harder to learn and master, but ultimately so much more effective then mass submission strategies, especially in the long run.
I agree...a few good backlinks can go a long way. But I must admit, I do use some mass submissions in the beginning...