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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. :grin: 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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24 People have expressed themselves on“SEO Isn’t Everything!”

  1. Well even if it isn’t everything, it is at least something which you should work on..

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  2. SEO Guide says:

    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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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:

    The blogs getting the most traffic are majority of referral traffic or direct traffic. I totally agree with you on a blog implementing SEO to be better than another which is not, that is why I do SEO on my blog but this is just so that those people who don’t know how to do it don’t feel left-out. What I’ll discuss in the next article will tell how you can still get traffic from search engines without knowing a thing about SEO!

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  3. 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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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:

    Totally agreed. But once you read my next post you might change your opinion a bit.

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    Nicolas Prudhon Reply:

    Then I look forward to your next post! ;)
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  4. This is a brilliant perspective that you have given in this article. It is definitely something to be looked at.

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  5. 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? :mrgreen:

    Regards,
    Lee

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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:

    Sure. In fact it will be the post after the next one. ;)

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    Make Money Online Reply:

    Haha, I’m still waiting. :) Btw, you have a nice contest over here, thanks for giving me a change to be one of the sponsor. :D
    Wish your contest a successful 1.

    Regards,
    Lee

  6. 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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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:

    You’re right, we shouldn’t ignore SEO but this was just to remind that SEO isn’t everything, there are other tools out there that can be equally effective. BTW, the post is out now! :)

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  7. 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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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:

    Absolutely, I’ve noticed in various forums that when you teach people something and they benefit from you they’ll become your fans. If you have a website, bingo! They’ll be subscribers, bookmarkers, commenters and most importantly loyal readers!

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  8. Diabetis says:

    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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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:

    Yeah, be sure to check it out in the least. I’m giving away this info because it really works. I tried, it worked, I shared! ;)

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  9. 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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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:

    You’re absolutely right, we should never under-estimate SEO. It is very important but there are times when you get bound by some things and you have to look for alternatives for a temporary period, that is when the technique I discussed comes into play.

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  10. Make Money says:

    Do you think focusing on social media like facebook will be good for SEO in the long run?

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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:

    The recent facebook vanity url land rush shows a lot potential. I mean, we already had facebook ranking good in the SERPs for names. In my case, it used to rank higher than this website for my name. After which, I decided to overthrow it. So I picked a good keyword as my vanity URl and I’m sure it will come in handy in the future!

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  11. 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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    Bingo Live Reply:

    Yes seo is not everything for promoting the website. You have shown a different point of view against the seo’s i like it.

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  12. 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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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:

    The aim of this post was to focus on something that John Chow once said “don’t put all of your eggs in google’s basket”. point is, I wanted to tell people who were obsessed by SEO that there are other options if you’re stuck. SEO is defnitely not a thing to leave out, in fact I do SEO on all of my blogs and also believe that it is a fundamental part of blog growth.

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