Thread: When/How did you learn SEO?

Originally Posted by GekiDan

Can this also be said on self hosted blogs using Wordpress or Joomla?

Anything out of the box is what it is .. unless you build it and optimize it yourself, it's still going to be someone elses work, no matter how hard you try to claim it as your own.

All CMS software comes this way.

If you really want to do the web thing, optimizing, building, and so on .. you've got to learn to do it yourself.

There's a big difference between buying a car and building a car.

In the web industry, true advancement and major monitary gain comes to those who "build" ..

A person can do SEO all day long .. but true SEO can never be realized unless you first understand how it all goes together ..

Knowing SEO without knowing how it's all built, is not too unlike buying a car without a stearing wheel .. Sure .. it'll go down the road well enuff .. but how well will you be able to control it when the road takes a turn (Panda/Penguin)? ..

I started learning SEO 5 years back i am learning new things everyday.

Originally Posted by SETX_WebDev

A person can do SEO all day long .. but true SEO can never be realized unless you first understand how it all goes together ..

I do agree with you. But not all of us are given a chance to learn all these things....

somany links, are you try ? haha

Originally Posted by SETX_WebDev

Anything out of the box is what it is .. unless you build it and optimize it yourself, it's still going to be someone elses work, no matter how hard you try to claim it as your own.

All CMS software comes this way.

If you really want to do the web thing, optimizing, building, and so on .. you've got to learn to do it yourself.

What bothers me is this 'plug and play' mentality that WP bloggers get into cause of the mods built into Wordpress. You can't simple click a button and do good SEO. Maybe these mods assist SEO but they don't replace it. Nor, do they negate the need to know SEO techniques.

Originally Posted by moneymakingmom

you can't simple click a button and do good SEO. Maybe these mods assist SEO but they don't replace it.

Yeah. Many people who call themselves "experts" always suggested to install these plug-ins and says that they do the work for you. But in reality, they won't.

Originally Posted by moneymakingmom

What bothers me is this 'plug and play' mentality that WP bloggers get into cause of the mods built into Wordpress. You can't simple click a button and do good SEO. Maybe these mods assist SEO but they don't replace it. Nor, do they negate the need to know SEO techniques.

so true but also remember the more plug ins you use the more vunerability your site has also !

back to seo plug ins
wp has a few that are top noche if and only if the webmaster sets them up properly ! garbage in is garbage out still !

Originally Posted by GekiDan

Yeah. Many people who call themselves "experts" always suggested to install these plug-ins and says that they do the work for you. But in reality, they won't.

100% proper set up is a must and to do that you need to know SEO !

Originally Posted by Smoke

so true but also remember the more plug ins you use the more vunerability your site has also !

Vulnerabilities? Like getting your site hacked?

I learned through ebooks and online tutorials .