SEO for the website

SEO is a per URL process, not necessarilly the entire site.

 

Absolutely 100%

Absolutely THE biggest problem. EVERY SINGLE URL on any website should be considered as an entry point or 'home page' if you prefer

Actually using one or two key words or phrases for each document makes writing copy and making it readable, more difficult.

if you are writing a product description of fifty or sixty words, then a couple of key words is fine but if the piece is longer than that, you need to be using more "key" words or phrases to avoid the piece being stilted and boring.

The other thing to consider is that search engines use word frequency NOT density, so a key word mentioned twice has doubled it's "importance" in that copy, but used five times is NOT five times as important. There is the law of diminishing returns to consider, which is not a linear progression, it is more of an inverse exponential graph, where your key words can, very quickly go from optimising, to over the top, to key word 'stuffing'. Which, for search engines is spam and to real human beings is "trying too hard" and therefore viewed with some suspicions over what the 'catch' is.

 

No they are not, it's clueless so-called SEOs that make it such a big deal.

So you have no idea what "SEO" really is then?

 

It's not "arrogance", it is because I AM confident about what I am saying, and I am most heartily fed up with people repeating the same garbage 'advice' that was completely wrong in 1998 never mind today.

Google give advice because they want people to stop trying to find stupid tricks and simply work WITH them, but they do not make a "big deal" out of it.

And "people" make a "big deal" out of it and make it sound like wizardry or witchcraft because they don't want you to realise just how easy true SEO really is just in case you DON'T buy into their drivel and DON'T buy the useless "SEO toolkit" they offer as the secret to success.

Every single Webmaster forum on the Internet took a rather dramatic 'nosedive' in late 2011 / early 2012, I don't think I can be held responsible for them all.

By the way, there's no 't' at the end of Chris

 

Because that is NOT SEO, it is the formulaic drivel that the "experts" have been piffling on about for over 15 years. It was useless then and is even more useless to day.

And if you read many of the replies I have made here you WILL find I HAVE said the same thing many, many times. So to be honest if you have taken no notice and failed to even try to change the way you approach Search, ten sorry you have not earned the right to feign affront when you get told it directly.

You can also read it at High Rankings Forum where the same good information about real SEO has been disseminated since 2003.
You along with so many others have simply been reading the wrong places and are indoctrinated into the "dark side" where Google is the only way to get converting traffic and "rankings", "links" and specific 'key' words are all that matter. Well! That kind of approach sort of worked last century but it "don't work no more"

When it comes down to it, no one can make anyone take notice, the adage of "Leading a horse to water" is very accurate, so getting frustrated when the same questions are asked over and over and over again is pretty much par for the course.

 

The thing you seem to be missing, is that this, is a forum, not a "one on one" tutorial, it's not the 'job' of anyone to give EVERY SINGLE PERSON a carefully tuned answer to whatever question they ask. Almost EVERY possible question has been asked and answered so it behoves the 'newbies' to spend more than the time it takes to register in doing a little research so the people who they EXPECT to get help from do not get hacked off by some lazy oik asking the same inane question for the one hundredth time because they haven't bothered to look first.

The ONLY way to learn ANYTHING is to read EVERYTHING and TEST IT, I do not have all the answers and neither does anyone else, When I tell people they are wrong I hope they ARE going to try and find out WHY I think they are wrong and NOT wait for me to hold their hand and walk them through it.

This ISN'T primary/junior school (grade school for the merry cans) where 'teacher' tells you everything and you have to remember it, this is college where you get given assignments to research and understand, then your tutor, who has heard every lame excuse in the book gets to quantify your research and tell you whether you passed or failed.

 

NOW!

If you want to read how it is when I really AM, absolutely being sarcastic / patronising / insulting / arrogant etc. etc.

Try the second post in this thread

 

Okay, what is it that you don't get about 'discuss'.

The word means "talk about" or "exchange ideas", how does that become "Explain everything in one paragraph"?

Discussion means the questioner has to participate in the discussion by further clarifying their question and/or requesting clarification of the points raised in the reply.

If I assert that the premise the other person is working from is wrong, discussion involves the questioner retorting with "Explain why you think I'm wrong" [or words to that effect] NOT flouncing off in a "girly huff" because I didn't say "Oh doesn't your hair look nice" which of course implies that it looks a complete mess the rest of the time.

Discussion involves a minimum of TWO people with differing or dissimilar opinions and viewpoints then, having a "to and fro" with each person offering alternative but salient points on the topic. The end result of this is that BOTH parties take the best of both standpoints with them. Deity knows, I TRY to get people to ask WHY but every one is so damned "wimpy" these days, they would rather go off and sulk (Mummy, Mummy Chris said I was wrong ) than actually challenge the assertion or predicate that opposes their view.

For deity's sake ... GROW SOME BALLS and challenge the point. It's not "aggressive" or "arrogant" it's how the world learns.

Where would we be now if Galileo hadn't challenged the views held, and asserted by "The Church of Rome" and proved them to be wrong??

 

Mate! If somebody wants to pay me for answering the same questions over and over again, .. Fine.

Until then, I choose how to waste my free time and if people are too lazy to do basic research, ... ... THAT is their problem.

If I can tell that someone has done more than search Google for "HTML/CSS forum" I WILL give real help, but if they expect me to explain the ins and outs without them understanding the basics they are out of luck.

The world's largest repository of information is at their behest without even leaving the house, so there is no excuse for not knowing any more.