One of the best articles in recent time

CONTRADICTORY...

• Analyze your links closely to know you are doing SEO right and which links you should disavow, but don’t think about backlinks.
• Spend years developing high quality link-bait and become an Authority, and then disavow all the links from sites that Google doesn’t like (even though they voluntarily linked to you because of your great content).
• Select a domain name that exactly matches what searchers want, but don’t select an exact match domain name even if that’s what searchers want and that’s what you do.
• Share content that is newsworthy, but don’t use press releases because that’s spammy.
• Don’t use directories, except Yelp and DMOZ, which are directories.
• Develop a world-wide brand so that you will be invulnerable to Google updates, just like the Salvation Army.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2275191/Google-Doubletalk-and-the-Three-Bears

 

Really Nice Article thanks for sharing!!!

 

Interesting article. My approach to SEO in the last year is do nothing, not a single thing except for on-site work. Then I just let it run by producing good content, in time my visits increase, sometimes it can be months but it's worked every time. Currently I have 5 sites pulling in 25,000 page views a day in total, I have never placed a single backlink.

 

This is the key! Keep it natural and user friendly with useful content and your "golden"!

 

I've 3 websites and I only place links on paid & high PR directories. As soon as I place a new link in a premium/paid directory I can see an increase in traffic within 1 week. And BTW I've never been hit by any update. So I disagree with your no directories point.