Search Engine Optimization Jacksonville = DUMB
So some SEO company in Jacksonville got the brilliant idea that they could use LinkedIn for pure SEO purposes, and they set up this profile:
That’s pretty “black hat”. But it’s also completely, utterly DUMB.
See, this profile might just actually get ranked well for “search engine optimization Jacksonville”, but even if it did, so what? Do you see a link to their site anywhere on the page?
Oh, wait, that’s on their “full profile”. Let’s click on the View Full Profile button:
“Expanded profile views are available only to Business account holders.”
That’s a teeny, tiny fraction of LinkedIn’s members. And 0 connections means they’re not even going to show up in the search results for anyone except business account holders. Google will never see their full profile page that has the link back to their actual site.
In other words, whoever created this gets no value out of it whatsoever, because there’s no way for anyone other than a handful of LinkedIn business users to ever even see it, and they get no Google juice with a link back to their site.
How NOT to do SEO.
P.S. – If you want reliable, ethical, professional search engine optimization in Jacksonville, talk to @SEOAly on Twitter or visit SEOAly.com.
P.P.S. – For a good analysis of the credibility battle over SEO in Jacksonville, check out Josh Garner’s commentary at SEO Factor.
March 21st, 2009 at 10:35 pm
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March 25th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
I love companies that try to SEO with linkedin. They are funny optimizing nofollow links
March 26th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Actually, the three links you get to put in your profile aren’t nofollow. But it doesn’t really matter, because the full profiles aren’t indexed by search engines — only the short profile, which doesn’t include the links.
April 7th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Strange, last time I checked, they were nofollow. Learn something new every day!
May 21st, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I recently got this domain and was stunned it had bad publicity. Please forgive any previous owners of this website’s name for any “unethical” practices. We are a Jacksonville SEO company, but white hat only. True search engine optimization takes hard work and time, no short cuts really.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Well written and and got some very good points regarding SEO