I have been doing SEO for a few years, but now I gradually find that some people have begun to fall into a strange circle, that is, they value rankings and false reputations too much. Of course when doing SEO, you need to look at rankings, but rankings are not the only thing. When you only focus on rankings, you will ignore a lot of things worthy of your attention. Please note that the ultimate goal of SEO is to make the website profitable, and SEO is not the only way to make a website profitable. SEO is just one way to help the website achieve profitability. Do you understand what I said?
Nowadays, the questions that many webmasters ask every day are nothing more than why the website's inclusion has decreased, why the PR is 0, why the ranking has fluctuated high and low, whether the website will be K-ed after changing the title, and other similar questions. I think the friend who asked this question doesn't know much about SEO, nor does he have a thorough understanding of the temper of search engines. But it’s a cliché, as I said in my previous article “Can there be real peace between SEO and search engines?” Never do SEO for rankings, and never do SEO for search engines. That’s not good for you. Nothing good comes from you.
I have fallen into this strange circle by mistake before. At that time, I attached great importance to the ranking of the website and thought it was a symbol of strength. At that time, Baidu had not yet changed the search results to be displayed by region, so at that time, when you optimized a keyword to the homepage, or even ranked first, relatively speaking, for this word, you were ranked first in the country. Yes, being number one in the country is so tempting! So at that time, no matter what words I wrote, I had to do my best. So I wrote original articles every day, made links every day, and asked questions and communicated with people every day. Of course, the results came. At that time, even a super popular word like "imported bearings" was ranked in the top ten of Baidu and Google. For a few weeks It has always been the number one on Baidu, yes, it is the number one. I was a little proud at that time. When I saw someone asking some relatively basic questions, such as "How to get your website indexed quickly by search engines", I felt that I already understood and knew everything. Now that I think about it, I was still very superficial back then.
Even if the ranking is improved, what will happen? I still feel confused. I found that I didn’t make much money. Maybe the fees in Tianjin SEO industry as a whole were not high, so I always felt that the little money I made was not enough for my hard work. Later, I discovered that many SEO experts did not have their own SEO websites, did not take many orders, and rarely went to forums to communicate. Strange? Why? After learning more about it, it turns out that they are very low-key in building their own websites and make money by relying on traffic, GGAD, ALIMAMA and some alliances. You ask how much you can earn from these? Let me tell you something. Entry-level people can basically earn more than 1,000 US dollars per month, which is US dollars, not RMB. Experts? Experts can usually have 1,000 US dollars a day, or even more. How much does it cost in a month? Calculate it yourself.
My friends who want to do SEO have only one ultimate goal, and that is to make money. But ranking does not equal profit. So you need to calm down and think carefully, why do you want to do SEO? Do you have a goal? Do you have a plan? Are you confused now? Think about it carefully. God created human rationality and never let rationality sleep. Don't forget the ultimate goal of SEO just for the sake of false fame.