How NOT to do SEO

I thought I’d see what the Tumblr community have got to offer in terms of SEO this morning. The best I could find was also the best example of how not to do SEO along with self promotion on a platform such as Tumblr. It’s no wonder people who work in this industry have this bad cloud around what we do! So without trying to upset anyone or company. This is a little example on ‘how not to do SEO’.

Who is Website Optimization India?

Websiteoptimizationindia[dot]com offer SEO services in what “I think” appears to be the Tampa area. Part of those thoughts are down to the homepage mentioning Tampa 43 times along with a further 39 in the meta data (of which 24 are meta keywords).

So that’s their idea of keyword relevancy for Google to pick up?

So What’s Tumblr got to do with it?

When searching SEO on Tumblr, I found the blog seocompanytampa[dot]tumblr[dot]com (yes that’s right neither site are getting a real link from me). In the last 4 days they have posted the same link (plus comment) to their main site 7 times;

It’s companies like these that really give SEO a bad name as they have the cheek to “guarantee” top rankings. If techniques like these are anything to go by, I feel sorry for their existing clients.

So if you are looking for SEO in Tampa, do some research first!