5 Things in SEO that Aren’t Important

In this video, you’ll find out which 5 things in SEO that don’t matter and where you should focus your time and efforts instead.

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This list of “things that don’t matter in SEO” aren’t exactly SEO myths and they aren’t necessarily bad practices. They’re mostly things that people obsess and worry over when they really don’t matter in terms of improving your Google rankings.

And the reason this occurs is because some blog posts or videos recommend these things as advice when in fact, these are not the things that are going to move the needle in your SEO rankings.

What are these things that don’t matter? They are:

► LSI Keywords
► Achieving a content score in a content optimization tool or getting a green light with Yoast’s WordPress plugin
► Word count
► Exact match domains
► Social signals

You’ll also learn what you should be focusing on in order to improve your SEO.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
1:25 LSI Keywords
2:18 Achieving content score
3:31 Word count
6:05 Exact match domains
7:19 Social signals
8:59 Things to focus instead

#seothingsthatdontmatter #ineffectiveseopractices #seo

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[kopohui]

Ultimately, create quality content is still the key. With SEO being such a dynamic topic, I think it's important to keep read and experiment those shared in this and other videos by Sam.

[DemetriPanici]

This is a great topic to tackle. Sometimes in SEO I find people spend hours wasting time on meaningless optimizations

[Ryan-rhrn]

This is good to know. Now I can stop stressing over my word count, keyword density, and title perfection to get green in my rankmath plug-in.

[MGMPK]

Great useful information. But i don't like that your conclusion is based on what Google say, they're known to mislead SEO'ers. SEO doesn't make them money, PPC does, so they have no reason to properly educate people on SEO

[marexibinsa]

Thank you so much for this video. Super helpful and well-presented. Your time and effort is most appreciated!

[brotendo]

I definitely believe 100% of all the things John Mueller says

[coolsai]

you explain this very easily ! thanks bcz now I no worry about writing long Article .

[jamessmith-qyfk]

That was a great video and you talked about Related keywords and the length of a blog post.
But what about the amount of Keywords and the Number of time's you repeat them in your post?
Can you please talk about that or make a video showing how you write a blog post from your Main keyword to the related ones?
Love your channel so helpful and I'm going to take your course! Thanks for sharing. 😊

[viktorivanov]

Hey, Sam, I think you made a great video. I disagree with certain statements based on my experience but that's what SEO is all about. There is no one way to reach your final goal. Keep posting great content and stay healthy! :)

[riadussalehin]

Everything you said is right but putting Amazon as an example was not appropriate, I think. You should've used sites who are ranking millions of competitive keywords with long form content. You could also make a comparison between sites that use long form content and sites that use short form content. It would help people to understand the real sauce behind it. I want to add one thing that, for affiliate content where website owners publishes top 10 reviews type content, is there anything you want to say about it? I real appreciate your sensible reply. Thanks.

[NateMoller]

Keyword density, meta keywords, over internal linking - these are some that I remind clients about often. Thanks for the info!

[Cherub]

Thank you! This is super helpful and straight to the point. I'll need to look into the SEO course 😊

[Millesimal_Ed]

Great video! Everytime a newbie opens their mouth about LSI keywords at work I shut them right up lol

[DrRajMeditationHealingmusic]

excellent knowledge... I am doing SEO of my YT channel... got your video... nice learning.

[hgksgltnmad]

I think exact match keyword domains work, but that depends on the situation. For example, exact match keyword domains will likely work if the search volume of the keyword is very low but have a high search volume. Since it's a very low competition, and Google loves to cater users with information they wanted, Google have no choice but to rank your site since it's catering the exact search of the user. But again, this all depends on many factors.

[bostjantanko]

Totally agree with you on this one Sam.

[osmansirin]

I agree that people get paranoid over little things. For me, 3-4 things are important. The rest is just meaningless to waste a lot time.
- Topical authority
- Internal/external links
- Quality content
- Core web vitals (both pc and mobile)

[leandrosantorsola]

Excellent video. This is specially helpful for beginners. Wish this video was published when I was a newbie.

[jimsmarketingcode]

I like this finally some logic here, just create original quality content that people search for and you will eventually build a great site over time.

[livebeyondtoday]

Great content, I appreciate your video and tips. I am grateful for your information not only it makes sense but I have a better understanding. Thank you for all your insights.