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Originally Posted by cbscreative
if I am building a new site, then is is planned from the start. The situations I have dealt with were taking sites from oblivion to page one.
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And once more, even if it is 'from the start' - bad link building practices are easily still be 'the biggest mistake' since they are the hardest to recover from.
The problem is that Google knows what is 'natural' in a given query space and we do not. This means a 'one size fits all' approach to link building is truly hap-hazard. I would suggest even tracking the link growth/velocity of top sites (and a few from say page 5 of the SERPs) in a niche before even beginning your own endeavors.
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Originally Posted by cbscreative
With your question, Graphic3, yes good coding is part of the process. Attention to detail is required to win because sloppiness is rampant, so good coding does stand out.
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Ok, let's not get carried away. One of the worst myths in
SEO is code... clean code, code to text ratio and so forth.
There are NO code related ranking signals. As long as the page parses and displays... yer good to go. As a certain Googler once told me (paraphrasing)
"If professor X from University Y doesn't know how to formulate good HTML, it doesn't mean what he is publishing is not of value"
So, while I do believe in
quality as an asset, coding has nada to do with
SEO for the most part...
Now, if we're talking usage of H1-5 tags, bold, italics, lists and so forth.... they are known as 'prominence factors' which Yahoo tends to like more than Google...
....but code... nope... not an
SEO consideration.
I'm just sayin.....