“There is no other way to do SEO except to learn to suffer,” a friend said in a post on a well-known webmaster forum. Indeed, SEO is a long-term project. It is really simple. It is just the constant repetition of "content, external links, internal links, anchor text, and statistical data (your own and competitors)". But at the same time it is very boring and requires long-term repetition and perseverance of "content, external links, internal links, anchor text, statistical data (your own and competitors)".
Patience is a virtue, but patience with boring work is not the same as living in dire straits. These are two completely different life experiences. Any job in the world has its boring and mechanical side, but if we cannot find the joy of work in it, if it is just endless suffering, we will never really like this job. And work hard to overcome various difficulties - in the boring work process, try to find ways to complete the work, and gain great satisfaction and confidence from it. If we always just stay in the work mentality of "suffering and enduring", we will not be able to achieve even the minimum standard of "working as a monk and hitting the clock every day", let alone achieve results.
SEO is a kind of "torture of life"? This understanding reminds me of Sisyphus in the ancient Greek mythology.
As the founder and king of the city-state of Corinth in Greek mythology. Sisyphus even kidnapped the God of Death for a time, making the world free of death. But because of this, Sisyphus violated the interests of the gods. In order to punish Sisyphus, the gods asked him to push a huge boulder to the top of the mountain. Because the boulder was too heavy, every time he pushed it to the top of the mountain, Due to the effect of gravity, it naturally rolled down the mountain, and all the previous efforts were wasted. So Sisyphus kept pushing the stone up the mountain, rolling the stone down the mountain, Sisyphus went down the mountain again, and pushed the stone up the mountain again and again throughout his life. ——The gods consider that there is no more severe punishment than to perform such futile and hopeless labor. Sisyphus's life was slowly consumed in such an ineffective and hopeless work.
The fable of Sisyphus predicts the fate of the entire human race. It can be summarized in the classic words of the Old Testament Book of Ecclesiastes: "There is nothing new under the sun." Return to the dust. His plans were destroyed that day.” Hatred, their jealousy, have long been eliminated." The final conclusion must be "vanity of vanities, vanity of vanities, everything is vanity." If it is just such a world-weary attitude, it is profound because it is profound, but human life certainly has no meaning and value. We can only wait for the fate of death, let alone the inheritance of human civilization from generation to generation.
But there is another Sisyphus—the Sisyphus described in scholar Zhou Guoping’s fable:
"Sisyphus was punished by pushing a boulder up a mountain. Every time he reached the top of the mountain, the boulder rolled back to the bottom of the mountain, and he had to start the futile labor all over again. I heard that he was extremely pessimistic and depressed. However, one day, I met someone who was going down the mountain. Sisyphus, but found him whistling, walking lightly, and looking carefree. In my life, I am most afraid of seeing people who are too unfortunate, for example, people who are terminally ill or who have just died. My relatives, because I can neither express anything about their misfortunes for fear of violating taboos, nor can I remain silent for fear of appearing heartless. Therefore, when I saw Sisyphus walking towards me, it was not what the legend said. He looked miserable, and even though I was well aware of his unfortunate life experience, I still felt uneasy.
Unexpectedly, Sisyphus spoke first. He raised his hand and shouted to me:
Hey, look, what a beautiful butterfly I caught!
I looked at his fading back, and couldn't help but think: There are always some things that are beyond the reach of Zeus's power, and those are too small things, where the happiness of Sisyphus (and all of us humans) can be found."
The five thousand years of human history are the Sisyphus outlined in the fable of scholar Zhou Guoping - facing all kinds of realities that are completely justified in despair, but always able to find the meaning of one's life in situations that are completely justified in despair, and for it Life is endless and struggle is endless. It is in this way that we continue to find the meaning of our lives in the "boring and tormenting" life, and we continue to create a colorful civilization that we, as future generations, can be proud of, and give us confidence. , you can face the "boring, boring and torturous" life.
Closer to home, it is true that SEO is very boring, but we must find the meaning and joy of our unremitting work in the boring work, so as to gain the motivation to work, otherwise our "endure of suffering" will never be sustainable.
A truly strong person does not fail to see the boring life, but recognizes the reality of boring life, and continues to create the meaning and fun of life through his or her own efforts, thereby enjoying life. As scholar Zhou Guoping summed it up: "Any career in life cannot be accomplished without interest, but interest alone cannot be accomplished without patience and perseverance."
In an extremely boring job, the only reason to always maintain interest in boring work and to always maintain tolerance for boring work and to maintain a positive interaction is to continue to find the meaning of work and the joy of work in boring work. Gain satisfaction and self-confidence, so that you can continuously gain the motivation to face various mechanical tasks and overcome various difficulties.
This is life! SEOERs, don’t treat SEO as a hopeless life sentence, but continue to find the joy of our work in the boring SEO process. Only in this way can an optimistic work attitude truly make us like this job. Boring work, and find the fun that belongs only to us SEOERs in it, so as to achieve our ultimate goal-let the website optimize our lives (this article was originally published by SEO Yunnan, please provide the URL for reprinting).
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