Google: Stop With The Tin Foil Hat SEO

[djbaxter]

Google: Stop With The Tin Foil Hat SEO
by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Roundtable
Jun 28, 2011

I love it when I see Googlers go off on SEO advice.

A Google Webmaster Help thread has Googler Susan Moskwa replying to one webmaster about them wanting to remove content from their own web site. The webmaster was thinking because they don't have a certain number of words on some of their content, they are better off removing the content because it can hurt the rankings of the rest of the web site. Yes, a lot of this comes from the Panda update and SEO theories around that.

So Susan replied, "Dude, it sounds like you've read too many tin foil hat 'SEO' articles."

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[Linda Buquet]

I was just coming to post this. Guess I need to get up earlier to beat David to the punch!