There are no answers
On virtually every webmaster forum and on some internet marketing blogs there are two groups of people. One one hand you have the theorists- those who claim to have an understanding of search engines and making money online and on the other hand you have the masses who ask specific questions, expecting specific answers.
Both of them are on the path to nowhere. Those who ask questions will never get satisfactory answers because no such answers probably exist. And if if someone does know the answer they won’t divulge it anyay. Those who theorise are are best wrong and at worse disseminating bad bad advice.
How do I rank higher? No one knows. I don’t know the specfic answer to that. It is obvious to say you need links, content, domain authority, etc but who those variables interact or the quantity of each is a mystery, and that mystery continues to deepen as search engines implement more advanced algorithims to prevent people from ‘deciphering’ them.
How many links to I need? Does PR matter? How about link age? Does link releavance count more than quantity? No one knows for sure. I sure as hell don’t. All I know is you need links and links from higher authority sources such as universities have more weight, but that is the extent of my knowledge; and the extent of information you will get anywhere else. How do I get more traffic? The answer isn’t satisfactory because no satisfactory answer exists. If there does exist an easy way to drive a lot of human traffic to a site for very little cost you won’t read about it on any forum or blog. You will have to find it yourself provided it exists.
Bloggers try to derive their own theories to rankings and making money. Eli from Bleuhatseo for example in his verbose posts attempts to deconstruct the workings of search engines. He presents various arcane thoeries to links building, link authority, indexing, and traffic but none of them are necessarly correct and nor can they be proven. Readers who are desperatley looking for answers gobble it up, which is why bluehatseo is so popular, but there is no evidance anything he writes actually works.
People ask the same repetitive questions on forums and get the usual answers.
3 Responses to “There are no answers”
Comment from Administrator
Time October 18, 2007 at 7:44 pm
He is damn smart. Wish I could read his mind.
Comment from Jack Rack
Time October 26, 2007 at 9:00 am
Yea, I always wonder what ideas he’s leaving out of his blog. We know we’re only getting the filtered version of him.
Did you see his interview with Eli? It looks like Eli’s strategy to prop himself up as a guru by offering tools that no one can prove or disprove to work and talking about things so complicated that most people can never call him out, has worked.
Off topic, are you gonna to do a post about shoemoney? I wanna see one of those things where you take post that he’s written and comment on it in red. I assume you’re not a shoemoney defender.
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Comment from Jack Rack
Time October 18, 2007 at 3:37 am
I agree; there are no answers. But if I had to pick one person on earth who had more answers than anyone, it would be Aaron Wall.