Over the years, I’ve heard a number of recommendations for SEO given out that I simply don’t understand or find logically flawed. I thought it might be interesting to share some of these and hear more perspectives. It could be that I just don’t comprehend the reasoning or haven’t thought things through, but I personally don’t always recommend these, so it’s worth at least a discussion.

#1 – Succesful SEO Copywriting = Keywords & Content Structure

Here’s an example of two pages upon which different kinds of SEO has been performed:

A while ago I wrote a post reviewing 3 tools to compare Google and Bing search results. Blind Search slipped in the comments (many thanks, Gidseo) and the time has come for me give it more attention here, at SEJ.

Created by Microsoft employee, Michael Kordahi, Blind Search is a great way to decide what really works better for you: Google, Yahoo or Bing. It offers you to search once to see results from all the three engines but you won’t know which results belong to which engine: you will have to choose blindly.

Read the search marketing press today and you’ll find abundant information on the importance of bid management strategies, as well as tools to maximize campaign ROI. However, as anybody who’s managed a search campaign recently knows, bid levels are only part of the equation.

Effective search marketers know that search engines are looking to maximize their yield from advertising&mdashjust as you are—so efforts to align your interests with those of your search partners can reap rich rewards. Search engines (primarily Google) have effectively shifted the onus of finding this balance to the advertiser through the introduction of quality score.

“Social Media Roundtable” by Paul Colligan. Join Web 2.0 Expert Paul Colligan, as he dives into Media and Web 2.0. He’ll challenge everything that you think you know about media for Web 2.0, while showing you how you can do it the right way- to maximize your profits.

“Create Massive Leverage with Mafia Offers” by Brad Fallon. As CEO of StomperNet and an active member of an elite Mastermind Group of CEOs, Brad takes you to the top of your business, showing you how to successfully fulfill a role in your own company that will allow it to grow rapidly- beyond what you thought possible.

How To Get Super Affiliates To Mail Your Stuff by Jeff Johnson. Who better to explain what motivates affiliates than a super affiliate himself themselves? Watch this presentation, where Jeff Johnson reveals some helpful tips and insights from his own personal experience as an affiliate and shows you how to get better results from yours.

Matt Cutts’ WordCamp presentation on May 30 last has an invaluable list of SEO tips coming as they do from a 9-year Google veteran.

This video takes up 6 most important tips for succeeding with your website.