Comments on: Transparent SEO: So Clear You Can’t See It

By: Gabriella Sannino

Gabriella Sannino — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:59:27 +0000

Thanks Jeff, I appreciate the kudos. I’m happy to see you liked the “who knows” lol I can’t tell you how many clients want answers. I don’t have a crystal ball, not would I want to guesstimate what Google is doing. A fine example is the buzz created around negative SEO. That’s a can of worms I don’t even want to open.

By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:22:50 +0000

Google’s latest “Panda” update (April 2012) is targeted and aimed at people specifically involved in over-optimization and keyword stuffing. Many blogs and websites involved in such practices will most likely see the rankings of their blogs fall drastically, or worst, deindexed. The 5 signs at the end of the post is what you would categorize under over-optimization, and should be avoided.

By: jeff loquist

jeff loquist — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:08:08 +0000

Excellent point and something I personally try to push to current and potential clients is that Google really could care less about you. With that, if a site owner or an SEO is worried about whether their site is over-optimized, it may very well be.

But what constitutes an over-optimization?

You are dead on with the answer of “who knows?”.

And until the dust settles – and IF the dust settles – nobody will know. not even the SEO “big guns” who seem to be doing a lot of yelling and screaming without really knowing. You’d swear another apocalypse scare was coming.

Anyway, good stuff here.