Re:Focus. Focus. Focus.
by whileonebegin on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @03:54PM
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Good SEO is targeted towards computers rather than humans. In the case of this newsletter-style post, potential customers would probably want to click the product name to get more details, rather than clicking a series of words which might lead to the product web site or might lead to a Wikipedia page or something else. Since it was the first instance of the product name, I would have expected it to be linked. Hence, the potential grey-hat. Not a big deal, I was just curious what people thought.
Re:Focus. Focus. Focus.
by garrett_smith on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @10:21PM
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"Good SEO is targeted towards computers rather than humans."
You're obviously not very good at SEO or else you'd know this is completely untrue.
That he prefers it to rank for the type of thing that it does vs. its name is absolutely the choice of the author. I don't see anything 'grey hat' about having an understanding of SEO.
That you admit that "it's good SEO" then question it is puzzling to me. Is there a reason I the author should prefer to use bad SEO on his personal blog?