Bloom Blog» bad advice http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:31:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Top Seven Crap SEO Tips http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/musings/top-seven-crap-seo-tips/ http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/musings/top-seven-crap-seo-tips/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:07:22 +0000 Stuart Turner http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/?p=433 Continue reading →]]> Bad Advice

It’s amazing given the WEALTH of information available to anyone on the internet about SEO, that some people and even some actual agencies (by golly!) still get it wrong.

After accidentally embarrassing Lisa Myers on Twitter (sorry Lisa!) I was inspired to collect some examples of the worst advice people have received from hobbyists, freelancers, fly-by-nighters and full on SEO agencies, here are the top 7.

Crap Tip #7

‘Keyword stuff you HTML comments’ (Thanks to @GrosenFriis) – original tweet credit here!

Crap Tip #6

‘Bold tags in the <head> title help SEO’ (Thanks to @peteyoung) – original tweet credit here!

Crap Tip #5

‘When buying a domain include the word nude’ (Thanks to @tnash – original tweet credit here!

Crap Tip #4

‘Sorry your site can’t be opimised, it’s in Javascript’ (Thanks @LisaDMyers) – original tweet credit here!

Crap Tip #3

‘Google likes to see that you have bought links’ (Thanks @Yoshimi_S) – original tweet credit here!

Crap Tip #2

‘Put all your URLs and keywords into the robots.txt file becuase that tells Google what to index’ (Thanks to @NortonLegg) – original tweet credit here!

And finally (drumroll please) the final, best, bravest Crap Tip of them all (hushed silence):

Crap Tip #1

‘Links aren’t important, they’re not included in the algo.’ (Thanks to @chriscathcart) – original tweet credit here!

It was a tough call between the top two, given that both are completely retarded but the links wins the prize! If anyone else has any crap tips they would like to add to the mix please do so!

Free Extra Crap!

This post has inspired more crap tips so in no particular order here are some Extra Crap SEO Tips!

Extra Crap Two for One

‘Put all your copy in H1 tags’ and ‘Hide lots of keywords behind images’ (Thanks @Whole 9 Yards) – original tweet credit here!

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