Comments on: Do not worry about SEO, just concentrate on your blog readers

By: Gabriella

Gabriella — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:48:22 +0000

I have to agree with Gerald. “So meta meta keywords do indirectly influence Google SERPS.” Let me mention it’s all good if you have readers, and even better if you have a great social network in place. But we write blogs for clients and many of them are not active in social media… that is not to say your post is misleading it’s not however, correct. Clearly great content will always keep your readers loyal, but getting them there with all tools including good “basic” SEO gives you an upper hand on organic results.

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:24:44 +0000

@Marko

The meta description is important because this is what Google uses to give the description of what your site or post is about in the search results. If you don’t take the time to put a meta description then Google will just randomly choose something for you and this might not as accurately describe our site or post.

Meta keywords are not important for Google but smaller search engines (Yahoo and MSN) do pay attention to meta keywords. Now I am also not concerned about Yahoo and MSN as I really only care about Google also but part of Google’s algorithm factors in search results of smaller search engines. So meta meta keywords do indirectly influence Google SERPS.

So while you can be successful ignoring meta descriptions and keywords you can enjoy even more success if you take care of this basic and simple area of SEO.

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:59:21 +0000

@Kai Lo – Nice story, thanks for sharing! I am glad your blog is doing well!

By: Kai Lo

Kai Lo — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:45:56 +0000

I learned a lot from you Marko. I am PR 2 after 1 month with no blog experience. I wrote a great comment in problogger.net just like you did, and it got the attention of Darren Rowse so he quoted my comment in one of his post as well as a quality backlink to my site. I think the most important thing is networking such as concentrating on your blog readers and writing great comments on other peoples’ blogs. I no longer care if a blog is DoFollow or NoFollow because I care more about networking with the authors. I’m always learning something new just by reading peoples’ blogs.

By: Tumblemoose

Tumblemoose — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:35:32 +0000

Marko,

Strictly focusing on SEO is a mistake, for sure. I do pay attention to keywords and such, but I pay a lot more attention to making sure my content says what I’m trying to convey. If it fits for SEO, then that’s great. I’m not going to manipulate my post to make it fit.

Cheers!

George

By: Bash Bosh

Bash Bosh — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:11:24 +0000

I think that good and quality articles are much better than SEO.

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:16:11 +0000

Thanks for all comments!

@Gerald Weber – I actually do not write meta keywords or description at all, even though Thesis has the option built in. I tend not to think about other search engines other than Google. Google sends me some 99.9% of all search traffic after all.

By: Teresa Hofmann

Teresa Hofmann — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:48:26 +0000

This I can follow, I am an IT nerd. I have only been blogging since Jan and there is like you said, so much info it can be overwhelming. Also thank you for including the rank number, very helpful as well.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:11:55 +0000

I whole heartedly agree and was worried I was off my rocker thinking and teaching the same thing! Keep your readers in mind and over deliver to the nth degree and your blog will soar to great heights. Wonderful article! Thanks Bunches,LA:)

By: claudio alegre

claudio alegre — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:01:06 +0000

I gotta agree… Especially in the advent of Google implementing semantic based search and even prioritizing twitter personal and business profiles, I think this would generally be good advice for someone starting a blog, focus on your core readers. SEO can be daunting and exhausting to learn as a newbie. It shouldn’t be completely ignored, but it shouldn’t be the main focus of any campaign either.

Good post, thx

Cheers!