Ignore the possibility of being blacklisted by an engine. What are the drawbacks to doing SEO? Some things that come to mind: - Poorly balancing search engine optimization with user experience - Focusing on keyword optimization causes you to overlook important keywords Anything else?
often times people will obsess over small factors that dont matter much - when they could have spent their time more wisely improving another part of their site.
- Too much Content optimization for SE Indexing that the Actual Content doesn't make sense anymore for Human readers. - Nonsense Forum post that fills the forums with Junk infos and replies; because some People doing SEO is just targeting to make as many IBLs as possible. - The bots (not just Google) are using too much resources from your Server. Darn it's hard to do Good Search Engine Optimization.
there is no drawbacks for seo optimization has not drawbacks, but over optimization, blackhat tactics, keyword stuffing, spamming etc has drawbacks. so avoid those.
All the useless junk that gets added to the Interent int he name of SEO. Useless blog comments, forum posts, countless repetitive articles adding no real value....
Your points are valid when you say "optimization has no drawbacks". In one sense, it is called "Search Engine Optimization" in the first place, as it is to do the most effective and legal way for Search Engine to Index your site. It is just that many SEO Experts and Specialist now-a-days have misconceptions with the meaning of SEO, and in turn causing the "drawbacks".
see as such there r no drawbacks in doing SEO ..... it just shows an ill effect on ur website whn ppl use black hat techniques of SEO so as to increase the ranking of their site resulting in ultimate blacklisting of the IP address by Google. Hence, SEO is necessary n gud but do not overdo it or do not use black hat techniques for the same.... rest is all well with it...
Your pages look SEO'd compared with those of your competitors and you may trip a red flag at some point in the future with search engines
Great feedback from everyone, I should have been more clear that certainly, I'm looking for POTENTIAL drawbacks I'm hoping to help convey that SEO is not all good news and that doing it poorly or wrong can hinder your business more than helping
What I meant is that some SEO Experts do a lot of Editing just to insert the keywords in the text contents in their site. Take this paragraph for example: In order to raise the number of repeats for the keyword "Search Engine", some SEOs are usually paraphrasing it to something like this: There... irritating isn't it. The increase in the usage of the word "search engines" can indeed spike up the Density and Prominence, but due to the improper use and iterations, the paragraph produced is now hard to understand. Not only that, did I mentioned that it is very very irritating to read.