Comments on: Test Your Web Team: The SEO Quiz

By: RagePank SEO

RagePank SEO — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:06:04 +0000

I agree, nice set of questions, though some of them are definitely open to interpretation.
Buying lots of links can definitely draw penalties (not being able to pass pagerank is a penalty), though the hidden text penalty is more severe.
And I’d be interested to see the logic behind the blanket statement of inline JS and CSS hurting SEO efforts. Sure, creating your body text with document.write() or using style=”font-weight:bold” instead of (strong) will screw things up. But a couple of style=”width:200px” calls or your Google analytics script at the bottom aren’t going to hurt are they?

By: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:29:44 +0000

I like it. Especially when a client who is non-technical lays this on the web design team. Surprise! Surprise!

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:38:00 +0000

A pretty long time. 4-5 years at least?
Don’t worry, I won’t tell your boss…

By: michaelportent

michaelportent — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:29:50 +0000

All of those sounded on point to me.
I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know about the last one! Have the engines always penalized for that? My web marketing pals back in the day used to tell me that it was a viable trick to flood keywords into your page. How long has that been a no-no?