I feel from few month Google is going heard for the SEO. Google is not giving more wattage of effort that is made by SEO. Like article submission, Directory submission, Social Bookmarking, There are nothing remains for SEO guys.
@ provaltech agreed i am clueless what is working and what is not. Specially seo for new site is not working. Any type of link building is not producing the results that it used to be before. Google has made huge changes in their algorithm recently.
Yes most of the times I started thinking that what had help us to achieve the results. Also I think buying links are not showing good results rather we deploy it in a natural manner. I am sure something big had changed in google Algorithm
yes the effect of links not coming. No ranking improvements even after having good and relevant links. Either google is not updating rankings or they started devaluing more types of links.
yeah social bookmarking is only for fast indexing now. it gives no weight..but still we have blogs.. content is the key as always
Google has changed it's algorithm 2 months ago. This means we all have to work hard to produce unique, quality content for our readers.
Yes, everyone is talking about quality content now. It's hard to make quality content though, when you've got to worry about making backlinks, writing articles, and the whole SEO game. I think Google's idea is that the strong will survive (meaning the strongest content), but really, people who put in the most work are still going to win. One really good article or site just can't beat a link wheel with a million backlinks to it. I use link wheels and I'm getting results - there's content, but not great content. Just my results for what it's worth.
In recent algo change google penalized content farms. check update on google site. So article submission , bookmarking is no longer as effective as it was. Now time to change tactics.
There are quite a number of content farms out there. They'll have to change tactics just like everyone else that has been notified of the algorithm change. SEO never was an easy thing....
I think Google is going hard after the really low quality SEO stuff. But, the quality white hat stuff and even the better, more thorough black hat stuff is still doing fine.
I think its good that google is makeing you think harder for seo. Not so easy where you can try one way and reach a p5 next up date. Makes you try different areas such as forum and blog commenting, articles, Directry submissions, tradeing links.
I focused on writing unique quality contents for a couple of years. I barely build links or even research and count the keywords ratio, etc as I rarely have time for it. Still, Google Panda hit my blog pretty deep
It's not hard, really. 1. Make sure your site contains quality, unique, keyword optimized content. 2. Make sure your targeted keywords don't have an enormous amount of competition. 3. Make sure your site has proper on-page SEO. 4. Make sure your backlinks are coming from as many different sources as possible. Do those 4 things and you'll survive most any Google update.