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jwesley on May 14, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone

Exactly. I'm sure this was really useful at the time, but SEO and the web as whole has changed drastically since 2002. It's gotten a lot more complicated and competitive.

motherwell on May 15, 2009 [–]

That is like saying the 100m for men has changed. It hasn't, you just have to be better at it than 40 years ago.

Nothing has really changed: build something people want, using terminology they use, and get third party citations.

Job done.

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