[sharkweek]

Respectfully, this is basically the equivalent of "here's how to build a house"

* Buy some land

* Buy some wood

* Pour some concrete

* Hammer the wood together on top of the concrete

* Put on a roof

There ya go, you know how to build a house!

And to that end, SEO is simple on the surface - Make sure your site is super easy to crawl and loads super fast. Write search keyword-optimized content. Build (or as the modern SEOs like to say "earn") links from high authority sites.

But none of those things are really that easy, in that they all take time, expertise, and honestly some times a chunk of luck (go and try to get a backlink from a site like Business Insider in the next 3 months, it takes a lot of stars aligning).

[genewitch]

"3. Draw the rest of the fucking owl"

[chiefalchemist]

Futhermore. It's a process. Once you get past the initial basics, it comes down to repetition.

[dvt]

> But none of those things are really that easy, in that they all take time, expertise, and honestly some times a chunk of luck

And quite honestly, they don't even work anymore. The Buzzfeeds of the world kind of killed SEO as a viable organic traffic strategy.

[sharkweek]

I don't understand the comment about Buzzfeed, but I disagree with the suggestion that SEO isn't a viable strategy for organic traffic anymore. There are billion dollar businesses that are entirely reliant on it as essentially a singular channel (not that I recommend this reliance, but it does work).

[steve-benjamins]

I can assure these strategies still work when done well.

Source: I run several SEO projects

[rchaud]

> And quite honestly, they don't even work anymore. The Buzzfeeds of the world kind of killed SEO as a viable organic traffic strategy.

Startups aren't competing for the same keywords as Buzzfeed.