SEO Isn’t Everything!Written by Abdulrehman on June 15th, 2009
If you suck at SEO or don’t know how to optimize websites for search engines, it’s okay. There’s no need to feel left out. There are hundreds of people out there who don’t know a thing about SEO and most wont even know what it stands for.
I remember having a chat with this guy from UK and he asked me about getting traffic. I asked him, “Do you know about SEO?”, “Who? the Senior Executive Officer?” he replied. For such a guy, it’s hard to explain what SEO is and how it can benefit you and your business.
This is not only for those who do not know about SEO, in fact this is also for the people who do know about it. Let me just say: Would you be able to rank a domain you just bought for a keyword within 4-5 days.
If you’re a whitehat SEO believer I could expect a no. So where does you SEO go then? What if the keyword you’re targeting is time-sensitive. I mean, you just bought a domain yesterday (15th June) and you want to rank for keyword targeting America Day (July 4th), it is next to impossible to rank for keywords in 2 weeks.
So what I’m trying to tell is that keep you options open. Look for alternatives to SEO. I’m not talking about pay-per-click ads or traffic from social bookmarking websites.
Have you ever heard of the term indirect organic traffic? I’m sure you haven’t, because I just made that up. 
But what it will reveal to you might just change the ways you get traffic.
Yesterday I was talking to this guy who just received his $600 cheque from ShareAsale which was what he earned in a total of 2 weeks. I got him to tell me his marketing strategies and I was surprised when he told me that he didn’t know a thing about SEO and never used any PPC program.
Basically, this guy did not spend a cent and he made money with even les knowledge than me. Of course, he had his website which isn’t even indexed by Google as of now (around 3 weeks old). Curious to know his strategy right?
He joined a forum related to his niche. He spent 1 week gaining authority in a forum. Posting, answering, asking and helping like crazy. So once you have authority you obviously have a great deal of newbies asking you questions. So all he did was refer people to his website and after 2 weeks he makes 23 sales and makes approximately $600. Not bad eh?
The story doesn’t end here. I’ve been doing this for 3 months now and have gotten traffic to website which have been sitting in the Google Sandbox for around 3 months now. I will write a post sometime this week illustrating how you can get the best out of no SEO and let it prove to be more effective.
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If you suck at SEO or don’t know how to optimize websites for search engines, it’s okay. There’s no need to feel left out. There are hundreds of people out there who don’t know a thing about SEO and most wont even know what it stands for.
I remember having a chat with this guy from UK and he asked me about getting traffic. I asked him, “Do you know about SEO?”, “Who? the Senior Executive Officer?” he replied. For such a guy, it’s hard to explain what SEO is and how it can benefit you and your business.
This is not only for those who do not know about SEO, in fact this is also for the people who do know about it. Let me just say: Would you be able to rank a domain you just bought for a keyword within 4-5 days.
If you’re a whitehat SEO believer I could expect a no. So where does you SEO go then? What if the keyword you’re targeting is time-sensitive. I mean, you just bought a domain yesterday (15th June) and you want to rank for keyword targeting America Day (July 4th), it is next to impossible to rank for keywords in 2 weeks.
So what I’m trying to tell is that keep you options open. Look for alternatives to SEO. I’m not talking about pay-per-click ads or traffic from social bookmarking websites.
Have you ever heard of the term indirect organic traffic? I’m sure you haven’t, because I just made that up. But what it will reveal to you might just change the ways you get traffic.
Yesterday I was talking to this guy who just received his $600 cheque from ShareAsale which was what he earned in a total of 2 weeks. I got him to tell me his marketing strategies and I was surprised when he told me that he didn’t know a thing about SEO and never used any PPC program.
Basically, this guy did not spend a cent and he made money with even les knowledge than me. Of course, he had his website which isn’t even indexed by Google as of now (around 3 weeks old). Curious to know his strategy right?
He joined a forum related to his niche. He spent 1 week gaining authority in a forum. Posting, answering, asking and helping like crazy. So once you have authority you obviously have a great deal of newbies asking you questions. So all he did was refer people to his website and after 2 weeks he makes 23 sales and makes approximately $600. Not bad eh?
The story doesn’t end here. I’ve been doing this for 3 months now and have gotten traffic to website which have been sitting in the Google Sandbox for around 3 months now. I will write a post sometime this week illustrating how you can get the best out of no SEO and let it prove to be more effective.
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 16 years old, study in grade 10 and live in Pakistan. I started this blog in the hope of making money on the internet, sharing my computer experiences and proving that despite many barriers, one can make money on the internet.
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Well even if it isn’t everything, it is at least something which you should work on..
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Yes you’re right about forum marketing can generate traffic to your blog. But SEO is one thing not that hard to implement to a blog.
By the way a blog applying SEO is much better than a blog doesn’t applying it at all. SEO is a long term traffic generation but it can give a continuous neverending traffic if you succeed with it because I guest 75% traffic comes from search engine.
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The major difference is the fact that SEO yield long term benefits and if your organic optimization is well done, those benefits will be lasting too, in opposition to forum marketing that requires you to be constantly active there.
All the sites don’t need good SEO to make money, but all the sites that make good money also have good SEO.
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This is a brilliant perspective that you have given in this article. It is definitely something to be looked at.
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I still prefer SEO instead of posting like crazy in forum. I’ve get involved in forum marketing but I don’t see it works well for me, perhaps I should wait for your next post and I could change my mind?
Regards,
Lee
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This has a lot of potential, although that’s not to say we should ignore SEO. I am eagerly awaiting your next post on the subject.
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the guy you selected for interview used a good strategy. Infact, he has done a great job in participating in forums. he made his reader base and got some permanent visitors for his blog
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I like the definition of the UK guy about SEO.
I am familiar with that strategy but I never really put it into work. Thanks for reminding that this stuff really works!
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SEO certainly isn’t everything, though it can be a HUGE part of your marketing strategy. I focus about half my time on SEO and the other half on social media and other marketing resources. I find they both work best together… diversity.
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Do you think focusing on social media like facebook will be good for SEO in the long run?
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I’ll agre with the other commentators that we shouldn’t leave out SEO, but it’s a great view-point you’ve given here.
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Hey Abdul I have different opinion on it. SEo is not everything but it is not the least thing IMO.
I’m not talking about hardcore SEO thingy, but the basic SEO practice like permalink, Linkback, anchortext should be a part of any blog.
Else it would be very hard to drive traffic from search engine.
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