Monday, 2 May 2011

An Open Letter to SEO Bloggers: Back up Your Statements!

Dear SEO Blogger,
I have been for quite some time reading SEO blogs and I offer input on a regular basis will appreciate, I have noticed a very disconcerting. It seems that more and more of your posts their opinions or theories as facts, state.
Now do not get me wrong, it is not new, people have been doing it for as long as they got feedback (and really, I guilty of this as well) , but it seems to be happening more often in the blogosphere SEO.
, Yesterday why I have read 3 different posts, I usually learn SEO is honored as hell they are doing, and yet within those posts, they by chance a "fact" that as far as I know has been proven to never have lived stated at best, a theory.
Of course, blogging is essential matters or your stating your opinion on an issue to take the offer, but we like "in my experience" abandoned or phrase "as far as I can tell," or * "I that "gasp Why? If we all authorities in our area that we certainly opinion rather than fact or theory of the state as desperate to sound like everything?
To make matters worse, these statements are backed up anything to do with being! Implementing them is a logical argument, there is no research, there is no connection other articles or posts to support their position is being provided!
One of the things I like most about SEO is that it is constantly changing and really, only Google knows exactly what works and what does not (and honestly, I have my doubts about them .) But the fact that things change so often means that there is very little in the industry "common knowledge". Even something as simple as "links are important for ranking" will be hotly debated by some members of our industry.
So please, next time you "________ the lines no longer works "or "________ links are devalued" or do something together to say "What are _______ will harm your rankings, please, please please back with something! I want to read more comfortable or "I was ____ as much as they do not see my sites have links to help" as "explains the results of this experiment, having _____ will harm your site's ranking. "
Like I'm splitting hairs here or in the words it may take work, but keep in mind you only other veteran may not writing for SEO. People that are completely new to the industry or trying to learn more about SEO are often the bulk of their blogs and forums to learn. When a blogger writes a thing as an established fact, and another blog states the exact opposite, it leads to a lot of confusion and in my opinion, (see how easy it was?) As a whole in the industry pain is.
If our industry never fully shed the reputation of snake oil salesmen to, I believe we begin to put some serious data, are being tested, and documented experience behind what we claim as fact.


Sincerely,
John Migh