The Secret To Post-Penguin SEO Is To FORGET About SEO

This is a guest post written by Chris Walker, an avid blogger, advertising copywriter, and Internet observer. Also See How To Become a guest author on BlogTipsNTricks.

Yeah, that's right, I said it-F SEO. As in, FORGET SEO. I know this might seem like heresy to generations of online marketers, bloggers, online publishers, and digital entrepreneurs. Who can blame them for having their brains stuck on the past? What's not to like about researching low competition/high volume keywords, making garbage pages based on these keywords, posting them up on low quality pages, spinning a gazillion keyword-coded articles and using bots to submit them to thousands of low-quality sites? In other words, what's not to like about the old model of “low effort/high reward”? The answer is, I'm sorry to say to the huge number of webmasters who miss the old “easy” days of Google, PLENTY.

For far too long, the actual Internet user has been the unlucky victim caught in the crossfire between “online businessmen” looking to make a quick buck and unafraid of cutting as many corners as possible to make money and the harsh, relentless, and unforgiving hammer of Google. There are way too many web publishers behind low quality sites out there and it seems that they are caught in never ending arms race with Google as to how many low quality digital crap they can churn out before Google catches up to them and sends them back to the basement. Sadly, these guys get caught, they make a new network and the same sad cycle starts again. Rinse and repeat.
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