How can good sites that don't know about SEO rank well?

Google would appear to favour sites that are built by those who know all the SEO 'best practice' techniques (and follow your tips!). There must be many technically poor sites that actually have fantastic content - surely these shouldn't be penalised? Tinperson, Buckinghamshire, UK

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• seo

[thinkaroundcorners]

Nice. Important lesson, here - it's not about perfection, rather GOOD CONTENT.

[SEOChef]

Danke für diese Nachricht, das wird viele Leser und Seher beruhigen

[advantageseo]

Well, to think of it, Google is like any other directories, for you to appear in the right category in a directory, you need to give them right contents (which at times, these are paid listings). If you don't do anything, they would place you in the category which they think is most suitable. Same thing, if you did not organise or SEO align your site, its hard for Google to understand what keywords would you want your site to be found for.

[seoalien]

@BapakGede LMAO!

[BapakGede]

Don't they have decent clothes at Google that I always have to look at guys with shabby shirts?! How terrible is this?!

[rlbucich]

Very similar to offline, business that have more skill in marketing often have a leg up on those who don't. If someone considers the web a significant potential revenue driver it would be wise to gain some knowledge in how to make a site more visible.

[fredericgaye]

En un mot le contenu est ROI ! Pour améliorer votre retour sur investissement, veillez à produire un contenu de qualité pour favoriser la création de liens vers ce contenu et améliorer sa notoriété (et son positionnement).

[GetFoundOnlineTips]

Thanks for the answer. Good video. So the most important thing for webmasters is to build excellent content which will be liked by people searching for that content. My tip for other webmasters is to brainstorm about the content which will be liked and to create high quality content. Focus on the quality on the content - some of the most important things.