{"id":1209,"date":"2007-03-25T08:37:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2007-03-25T08:38:34","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T15:38:34","slug":"if-you-make-great-stuff-people-will-find-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1209\/if-you-make-great-stuff-people-will-find-you\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If you make great stuff, people will find you&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2007\/03\/shortcuts_that_.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seth on SEO shortcuts:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The author said you should make sure that the keywords and title are perfect and limit outbound links so that you can be sure that people will only do what you want them to. Others spend time studying the algorithms of Google and Yahoo to figure out the very best way to jump ahead in the rankings for their blog or corporate site. Is it reciprocal links or careful metatags? What if I create some sort of ring so that the&#160; spider won&#8217;t realize the scam?<\/p>\n<p>Hey. It&#8217;s not so hard. If you make great stuff, people will find you. If you are transparent and accurate and doing what&#8217;s good for the surfer, people will find you. If you regularly demonstrate knowledge of content that&#8217;s worth seeking out, people (being selfish) will come, and people (being generous) will tell other people. It turns out that it&#8217;s easier and faster to do that than to spend all your time on the shortcuts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth on SEO shortcuts: The author said you should make sure that the keywords and title are perfect and limit outbound links so that you can be sure that people will only do what you want them to. Others spend time studying the algorithms of Google and Yahoo to figure out the very best way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-weblogging-101","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":572,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/572\/links-on-the-lam-a-series-of-interstitial-notices\/","url_meta":{"origin":1209,"position":0},"title":"Links on the lam: A series of interstitial notices . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm juggling stuff, so I'm going to try to sneak in some little things fast. 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