Things the used to work for SEO but no longer does

[Dowenship]

What are some past ways that you were able to rank in search engines, but can no longer do it today? I remember years ago that you could put backlinks in the code of the site to help it rank, but idk if that even works anymore. Or if it even did. Are there some things that worked good back in the day, but no longer does?

There Were times where your long content matters, the longer your content the ranking you have but now is strictly on content.

 

[James07]

One thing that used to work back then that doesn't work now is the use of exact match domain (EMD). Back then, when you register such domain, you would get advantage on ranking on SERP. Again, Google algorithms has really changed in that the E-A-T (Expertise Authoritative Trustworthiness) approach has really changed the SEO and ranking strategies.

 

[Yusuf1]

Some of the things I know about Search Engine optimization to rank for search engine is that you need to do keyword research and after the keyword research you must write good content based on the keyword research

 

[kayode10]

Blog comment is one of the old tactics to rank s website on Google search but it's not longer work now. In fact, some people no longer allow comments on their websites to avoid track back .

 

[Bousine123]

In the past, the length of a post was very important. You could just write a looooong post and it would rank. But now, it is all about the quality of the content. Quantity doesn't matter now.

I think this is due to changes the digital world is changing everyday and there are now many people that have access to be internet so now is all about quality.

 

[Kvngsammy]

Article directories and link directories used to work for SEO because these were believed to be ultimately ways to build backlinks, sadly, these methods do not work

I remember how we so crazy about building backlinks back then. It was so great and I felt like I had learned a super hack after coming across it - it's unfortunate that this isn't working anymore.

 

[Kaffyfolla]

Let’s kick things off with a brief explanation of what Google’s goal as a search engine is.

Just like any search engine, their objective is to find the best possible results for each user's query. If they fail on this front, users are less likely to use the search engine again. That said, Google does do this very well

 

[greenie]

I learnt SEO fully at the beginning of this year and I haven't even applied it yet. SEO is very important for bloggers and affiliate marketers because the more you rank on search engine, the more sales you make.

 

[Busybee]

Dumping keywords or keyword overloading which was a trend previously has stopped working now. Google would penalize sites if it finds them using these BlackHat techniques.

 

[Shole]

Forum signatures used to work way better than they do now, and free promotion things were better than paid. Also if you had just a site for the desktop and no mobile phone option you'd still rank high, now you need both.