SEO News Blog

In today’s hustle and bustle world it’s often hard to find a trustworthy place to go for SEO news. Now mind you this isn’t a self promotional post, this is just an easy way for you to find if the that new thing you heard about SEO is right. Many blogs and websites offer these new magical ways to get ahead of competition in SERPs, but are they true? I have to admit it’s hard to figure out the truth from the blatant lies told to gain popularity. In fact these days it’s damn near impossible. But you know what? After carefully thinking about it for a while I’ve found an easy five step process to figuring out what counts and what deserves to be ignored.

Use Common Sense

Using common sense to figure out if the source is true is the first thing you should do. Life demands common sense so why not in the SEO world? Make sure it’s nothing but blabber that seems too good to be true. And if for some weird reason you’ve lost your common sense try thinking about what would happen if everyone knew about it. Wouldn’t it have lit the web by fire and gotten so much popularity from good old reliable blogosphere?

Is It Regarded as an Authoritative Source?

This is the next question you need to ask yourself. In my SEO top ten leaders I list trustworthy people in the SEO World, every authoritative website or person is always careful as to what he or she publishes or what they pass on. This helps keep them honest and makes sure they won’t publish any bogus information. These kind of leaders are the ones that usually have the fresh information and happen to keep up with any new trends that may help their readers. As an added bonus they all usually have blogs that they keep updated almost daily check out my blogroll on the homepage of SEO News Blog for a compilation of most authoritative websites in the SEO world.

Check The Links To It

Checking the links to the specific page or post is another way to make sure it’s being supported by authoritative websites. A simple link search in google for the specific page will show you who linked to that information. For example search link: for the world renowned SEO checklist and you can see how many authoritative websites that linked to it. If the information is too long to attract links yet try waiting a while if it’s that great it should catch on pretty quick.

Ask Someone or Post in a Forum

Forums are a great way for people to meet and talk to each other. Both in the real world and on the Internet. There are many forums listed in my blogroll and a simple search for SEO forum on Google will turn up pretty good results. But you can just skip all that and head on over to webmaster world a popular and guaranteed place to get your answers on many topics especially SEO. So don’t be shy to link to the information and ask if anyone can confirm this. usually a trustworthy user will pop in and either deny or agree with the news. It’s pretty easy this way and puts the new information at the mercy of the great public.

Grave Danger You Are In. If impatient You Are - Yoda

Yoda, though imaginary, is sometimes a great character to quote. Patience is truly a virtue. If you wait long enough the topic will grab others attention and bring you what you wanted; that is confirmation. Even though most people always talk about grabbing at opportunity fast it pays to wait sometimes. These kind of people are the same ones who may but into the new hype. Like the y2k bug or many other exemples of peopel who spent their life’s savings thinking it was a wise choice only to be proven wrong later.

Conclusion…

In writing this post I hope to make you not just a wiser person but a wiser SEO. This advice can essentially be used in any field of interest and will protect your safe being from falling for traps.

Thank You