Sometimes The Old Advice Is Actually Still The Best Advice

With the rise of the social media over the last couple of years, everybody’s thirsty for the latest advice or tips to get one-up on the competition, but some of the ‘advice’ I rely on, on a day to day basis, when it comes to seo and website design, is years old. It’s still in electronic form. It works. It’s aged well and with a bit of experience you can learn what’s still very relevant. It’s never let me down any way.

Even though the articles might be older than your kids, it’s guaranteed you can still learn a whole lot – an awful lot in fact – from the old sources.

For instance – Want To Build A Successful, Usable Website that ranks well in Google?

Surely, the internet being such a fast moving maelstrom that it is, any such advice would be so outdated to make it obsolete?

• Who Should You Hire to Design Your Web Site BEEZBO? – 1995 – Jakob Nielsen
• Top Ten Website Design Mistakes – 1996 – Jakob Nielsen
• 26 Steps to a Successful Site – 2002 – Brett Tabke
• The Most Hated Advertising Techniques – 2004 – Jakob Nielsen
• Link Pages are Dead – Long Live Content Pages. 2005 – Jim Boykin
• Get backlinks from pages that have backlinks 2006 – Jim Boykin
• Why that site with 50 backlinks beats your site with 1000 backlinks. 2006 – Jim Boykin

So if you’re fed up of the new-style SEM flamebait, linkbait, trolling social media backslapping / spamming scrum, take a moment and look out the old articles. I’m not saying don’t read the new stuff, or that the old advice is 100% accurate today – but it’s certainly not useless.

Feel free to list the favourite posts you still think about.

Written by Shaun Anderson Hobo