It must be the time of year. End-of-yearitis. A time when everyone must share their SEO success tips in a last ditch effort to drag traffic through the door of their blog. My feed reader starts filling with blog post after blog post promising me that their words would make my blog a raving success.
They have no freakin’ clue what they are blogging about.
I came across one article that got a lot of Diggs and was showcased across several bookmarking sites among the top 25 or so tips for successful SEO for search engines. Guess what numbers one and two for the best SEO techniques were?
Number one tip for search engine optimization? Looks count.
What?
Number two tip for search engine optimization? Choose complementary colors.
Huh?
Search engines don’t care what your site looks like. Readers do, search engines don’t. They don’t “look” at it. They blindly go through gathering information.
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