Tuesday • December 22, 2015
To say SEO has “changed a lot” would be the understatement of the decade.
Source: Hubspot - We’ll often see multiple updates per year from Google, including this year’s Mobilegeddon update from Spring 2015. Not to mention how Google’s Panda, Penguin, and Hummingbird updates totally shook up the world of SEO. Marketers and SEO agencies worldwide halted their link-building and keyword obsessed ways and swapped them for a long overdue focus on quality content.
But does that mean an SEO specialist’s job is just to pump out high-quality, keyword-optimized content? Far from it. In fact, SEO has changed so much in the past several years that many marketers aren’t sure what’s outdated, what’s important, what will actually move the needle, and what’s simply wasted effort.
This guide is going to point out all of the most common myths and assumptions about how SEO works and debunk them for you, so you’re not wasting a single moment on things that simply don’t matter for SEO in 2016. Let’s get started.