I will add that white hat SEO is so rewarding. It is lovely to see your website do well in the ranking, but it is even better to know that it has been done in a way that is sustainable! Google loves me and it is a deep, emotional and intellectual relationship, not a one-night stand! I ain’t that kind of girl!
Merry Christmas!
Lorraine

Thanks for another great post.

I would say that SEO is now is evolving into something more like search marketing. It’s becoming common knowledge to many that tweaking pages and adding a few back links is simply not enough.

All the items in your list, except number 2, are common to most types of business, and as SEO establishes itself as a mainstream industry, they will become more widely frowned upon and hopefully a thing of the past

A Merry Christmas to you.

Regards

Rifki

Reg

I would say simply awesome post:-) Thanks for putting your efforts.

I agree SEO industry is becoming tougher and tougher day by day and now a day’s many SEO’s(me too) discuss with Client’s not just focus on rankings, SEO is not about rankings only it’s something though to help in improving overall business online visibility.

SEO’s need to think as business marketer and work on metric’s which not only improve site ranking’s but also increases the overall business revenue generation, which I think is the prime objective of every client/site owner.

So better concentrate much on online activities which can bring more business to Client’s site.

Thanks Again!…Merry X’mas & New Year Wishes in advance, hope to see many more interesting articles in 2010.

Thanks and happy holidays!