Comments on: Video: I don’t care about SEO anymore and neither should you

By: Nick Stewart

Nick Stewart — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:34:55 +0000

Yes it is still growing. It goes up and down a lot and kind of depends on the day of the week and when I do e-mail sends. But the overall trend is up.

By: kitchen trash can

kitchen trash can — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:12:33 +0000

Has your returning visitor count continued to grow?

By: bb

bb — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:39:23 +0000

Thanks for great content

By: Nick Stewart

Nick Stewart — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:09:47 +0000

Thanks Darren. Hurray for great content!

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:48:37 +0000

I do pay attention to my SE rankings but I think that is just vanity! Like Nick, I get most of my traffic through referrals.

The SE will bring you nice steady traffic but getting good rankings can take a lot of your time. You can get big bursts of traffic via social networking and Web 2.0 as Nick has pointed out. These thechnoques can bring you the visitors but it is your job, via your quality content, that will keep them coming back.

As all the wise people say, ‘Content is King!’

Thanks for sharing Nick, great info as always.

By: Nick Stewart

Nick Stewart — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:13:31 +0000

Thanks Mark. How’s your stuff going?

By: Nick Stewart

Nick Stewart — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:02:01 +0000

Yah I purposely made the title a little provocative.

“I write for people and not search engines.” – that’s a great way of putting it.

By: Mark Yarrobino

Mark Yarrobino — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:49:29 +0000

Great job with this video, Nick. Thanks for spreading the word about the truth behind search engine optimization. It’s great if you have good SEO rankings, but it isn’t vital anymore, as you explained.

Mark

By: Jeff Sargent

Jeff Sargent — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:29:17 +0000

Hey Nick,

Okay I must admit when I first saw this post I said to myself, what is he talking about. But after watching the video I totally agree.

Thanks for sharing your traffic stats with us. It was interesting that you only get about 18% of your traffic thru Google. I figured with your site being well established for quite some time now and with the great content that you’d be getting a lot more traffic thru search engines.

Most of my traffic comes from referrals also and I don’t bother with Google on my blog. I just figure if I keep posting good content eventually I’ll have so much content that the search engines will find me without me having to do any SEO. I write for people and not search engines.

Later,
Jeff Sargent

By: Nick Stewart

Nick Stewart — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:39:52 +0000

Quality content is an important key to building a following. It’s probably the first step.