Poll Results: Is SEO Easy?
Posted on March 13, 2007 by
Adie 
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About a week ago I asked Is SEO Easy? You guys responded with 100 votes (the most I’ve ever gotten on a poll). Here are the results:
Mostly Easy took it with 47 votes (47%) but Mostly Difficult was on its coattail with 30 votes. Very Difficult got smashed with only 5 votes. Here’s what some of the readers had to say about the topic:
In my opinion search engine optimization is far away from being easy. Easily you can only attack phrases like “french processed cheese rocks†;-) - Florchakh
I think it’s mostly easy for people that know web development (like myself), but if you don’t then you’re going to have a tough time with it… so I think it’s mostly difficult for most people, but I voted mostly easy. :D - Ryan
I personally voted for Mostly Easy (as you can tell). I believe that SEO in general can be done by anybody with relatively little knowledge. In addition there are a ton of great SEO resources out there (like SEOBook) that lowers the learning curve tremendously. However, as with everything there is a point in SEO where it becomes much more difficult and harder to rank. Anything competitive cannot be easy across the board. You’re always going to have people at the top who make their careers out of this stuff and make it hard when you get to their level. For the most part though I think SEO is fairly easy. If you do the basic on-site stuff (keyword density, domain considerations, etc) mixed with some healthy link-building I think you’ll do fine. But if you want to be on page 1 on Google for phentermine you have a lot of work to do.
Anyways, onto the next poll: How Should I Label My Affiliate Links? As always you can just cruise on down to the bottom of my sidebar on the right to participate! This poll directly impacts your reading experience here so I hope you all take a second to vote and let me know what you think!
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Don’t label them.
If someone signs up when you’ve linked them to something you’ve provided a service and therefore should be paid.
Judging from the poll results, the majority hold the same opinion of SEO as Dave Pasternack!
So why the animosity towards him?!
*wink*
- Alister
I think perhaps the basic foundations of SEO may be considered easy… but the in-depth, constantly changing tactics and concepts involved, and the fierce competition that exists means advanced SEO is anything but!
I agree with Martin. There are a lot of thing that can easily be termed as “easy” changes to increase your SEO. However, a lot of the truly good results often comes form the truly hard tasks. I don’t think it can really be termed as being very easy. If it is, let me know how, I’m always willing to learn.
Interestingly enough, I had written about this same topic very recently in my blog
to summarise the above post: No need to ‘mark’ affiliate links.
Interesting new poll I must say; I usually label my affiliate links with ‘aff’ to keep my creditability some, it’s often considered not too nice when you drop affiliate links everywhere without having your readers know about it.
I think I’ve settled on no label needed, as people new to the affiliate arena have no idea what (aff) means, and those of us that are know an affiliate link when we see one.
I think most SEO is easy.. it’s just to be really successful, you need a lot of time and dedication - which in itself could make it difficult. But most of the actual strategies aren’t that difficult themselves.
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From my point of view, Mostly people think that SEO is really a very easy task. Doing it is really easy but getting the desire result in a short time is quite difficult. and uncertain ( NOT for those who have patience..)
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