Comments on: SEO 12 Days of Christmas – And a Number One Placement in Google http://www.distinctseo.com/blog/seo/seo-12-days-of-christmas-and-a-number-one-placement-in-google/ Social media, web marketing, and SEO discussions to set your business apart. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:51:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Barry http://www.distinctseo.com/blog/seo/seo-12-days-of-christmas-and-a-number-one-placement-in-google/comment-page-1/#comment-770 Barry Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:51:19 +0000 http://www.distinctseo.com/blog/seo/seo-12-days-of-christmas-and-a-number-one-placement-in-google/#comment-770 Don't stuff too much Eric, you might regret it and be tossed into Hades :P Don't stuff too much Eric, you might regret it and be tossed into Hades :P

]]> By: Eric Frei http://www.distinctseo.com/blog/seo/seo-12-days-of-christmas-and-a-number-one-placement-in-google/comment-page-1/#comment-768 Eric Frei Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:52:47 +0000 http://www.distinctseo.com/blog/seo/seo-12-days-of-christmas-and-a-number-one-placement-in-google/#comment-768 "So if and when you tame the Google beast, sit back and reap the rewards" Barry, I don't think anyone even if they sit at #1 sits back, frankly it can give you shorter fingernails worrying that making changes can only take you backwards where as sitting #4 or #5 allows you to take a chance on something different. About 18months ago I turned my back on "SEO Catholicism" and went with my instinct, like you observing the anomalies yet hearing the dogma. That took me to #1 not hell, now it's old news as many realise there's more rules than Moses brought down from the mountain. One of the latest techniques, and knowing I am posting on a 6 month old blog, is to use the CSS sheets cleverly to disguise content behind images and banners where human eyes cannot see. Every now and then when looking at a website and wondering how it ranked ... disable your CSS and then read the page. Flash sites also now have extensive crammed content unseen to the human eye. I suppose the game stakes are never what Google says but like the law Google seems to be now playing catch up trying to alter algo's for the exploits of SEO innovators. If we all stand in line like sheep and willing submit to the word of Google then in all reality with competition the way it is there would be little difference between sites ... now you have to look for what is unseen, and it is not a black hat technique just an anomaly of CSS and the browsers. Nice Blog Barry, keep up the good work. "So if and when you tame the Google beast, sit back and reap the rewards"

Barry, I don't think anyone even if they sit at #1 sits back, frankly it can give you shorter fingernails worrying that making changes can only take you backwards where as sitting #4 or #5 allows you to take a chance on something different.

About 18months ago I turned my back on "SEO Catholicism" and went with my instinct, like you observing the anomalies yet hearing the dogma. That took me to #1 not hell, now it's old news as many realise there's more rules than Moses brought down from the mountain.

One of the latest techniques, and knowing I am posting on a 6 month old blog, is to use the CSS sheets cleverly to disguise content behind images and banners where human eyes cannot see. Every now and then when looking at a website and wondering how it ranked ... disable your CSS and then read the page. Flash sites also now have extensive crammed content unseen to the human eye. I suppose the game stakes are never what Google says but like the law Google seems to be now playing catch up trying to alter algo's for the exploits of SEO innovators.

If we all stand in line like sheep and willing submit to the word of Google then in all reality with competition the way it is there would be little difference between sites ... now you have to look for what is unseen, and it is not a black hat technique just an anomaly of CSS and the browsers.

Nice Blog Barry, keep up the good work.

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