Hey SEO’s are you still worried if your white hat is looking a little gray, or maybe your black hat is starting to fade to white? Wake up and smell the coffee sunny Jim it’s no longer hip or trendy to debate whether your rule breaker or not. The hottest thing now is debating if you’re a new school or old school SEO.
So how do you know where you stand here are a few helpful questions to help you figure out where you stand:
- Do you remember coding pages before CSS was invented?
- Have you ever actively done anything to increase your traffic in Lycos, AlltheWeb, or AltaVista?
- Have you ever optimized a page to improve download speed?
- Can you remember running ranking reports in WebPosition Gold 1.x or 2.x?
- Do you can remember a world without Google?
- Have you been bidding on keywords before affiliate programs had keyword bidding policies?
If you answered yes to at least three of those questions chances are you are and old school SEO. Want to know if you’re a member of new school, try answering some of these questions:
- Are you unsure what the sound of connecting to a dial-up ISP sounds like?
- Can you honestly say you have never performed a search on Lycosomething-or-other or Alta-whatsis?
- Do you think websites that don’t utilize blogging software are quaint
- Were all of your domains registered after the Google Florida update?
- Do you still find it amazing that people had monitor resolutions of 640 x 480?
- Have you ever said (to yourself or on your blog) who the heck is this guy/girl and what makes them think they are a search expert or guru?
If you answered yes to at least three of these questions chances are you are a new school SEO? So what does it all mean? Beats the heck out of me I’m just blogging for about it for the linkbait. One things for sure though old timers are going to complain about the youngin’s showin’ no respect and new folks are going to complain about the old geezers thinkin’ they know-it-all. Either way the trend shows no sign of fading, and it looks like we’re in for some prime time entertainment, so grab the a bucket of popcorn and pull up a seat …
Popularity: 4% [?]
Related posts:
- KISS SEO The follow
- HCards, Microformats and Address Data does it Matter for SEO A few week
- How to Practice Kamikaze SEO One of the
{ 3 trackbacks }
{ 9 comments }
Calm down before I run my tank over your ass old man!
Check my feedburner placement and tell me what you think, too in your face?
Thanks for the help today dude.
Aaron
I hate being pigeonholed. I’m a My School SEO. I believe I’ll let both ’schools’ argue the issue while I quietly amass my next fortune…
ROFL ‘old school’ in an industry that’s 10 years old…
I think it was RC who said on the internet everything is measured in dog years
Why you young kids today have no respect. In my day, we walked through the snow for seven miles to reach an Add URL form, and we liked it.
I remember doing ranking reports by hand, ’cause we had no WebPosition, and we like it. Pretty pretty Google hands you ranking information today.
We had no forums but instead talked to each other through tin cans hooked up by wire, and we liked it.
We got to buy paid links on Open Text briefly and consider it a miracle for the two months or so that it lasted. Now you can buy them anywhere and even get swag for doing so.
Our definition of page rank was how well your page ranked and cutts was something you did to paper.
I’ve gotta hobble back to my desk now, my bones are aching.
Old School? Listen here, sonnie-boy! I remember when Yahoo Directory submissions were free! I remember when the default background color for web pages was gray (like your name). Remember optimizing for Infoseek because you could see the results in an hour or so?
Heck I remember when it was bleeding edge to put up those ‘this site looks best in Internet Explorer 4′ buttons.
I remember when I went by foot to Yahoo Germany in Munich to submit my site in the Yahoo Directory. One minute later it was online.
Wasn’t “HotMail” some sort of a quasi porn site where you could get anonymous emails for cheating on your spouse ?
I remember how proud I was when I wrote my very own Perl script to generate doorway pages for AV. I must have have hundreds of pages…HUNDREDS I tell you !
New School, Old School. What about Grad School?
Comments on this entry are closed.