I’ve been thinking about this for the past couple weeks and haven’t come up with a solid answer. The question is:
Can Google (or any of the search engines) suspect strong SEO efforts whether it be absolute perfect onsite optimization or perfect link building? Do they care? Will they adjust the ranking they give you in the SERP’s because they understand what you’re trying to do?
This post is definitely up for discussion and argument. On one hand I believe that the fact that your doing SEO is irrelevant because it all sums up to the general trust that the search engines have with you. However, on the other hand, if you are doing absolutely textbook perfect link building and onsite optimization, I wonder if the SE’s can determine that you’re trying to manipulate them.
I guess the ultimate question is: can you be doing everything SEO-wise perfectly that the SE’s can identify it, and deem you as being unnatural and unfit for top rankings?
People, I need you to comment and give your personal experiences. Don’t glorify yourself or your SEO knowledge, just give your experienced opinion.
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I’ve had the same question in the past, and I’m glad you’re addressing it, Kevin. I haven’t seen any evidence of pages getting dinged for going over the top on SEO efforts except for anecdotal evidence of raising flags when you build links too quickly, and SE are trying to determine the quality of them. I’m definitely interested in hearing others’ experience.
Well, doing SEO perfectly is also creating a better experience for the user. Unless you are using black hat techniques, I would think Google actually would lobby for everyone to do SEO, as it helps them find the most relevant stuff anyways. And with “textbook perfect link building”, you are bound to get some links where you cannot choose the anchor text, and that is besides the point that textbook link building suggests that you switch up your anchor text anyways. So anyways, my opinion is that as long as you are doing SEO the right way, the SEs shouldn’t have a problem with it.
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