I’m taking this online course on SEO and I have a sneaking suspicion that the instructor is either an idiot or (more likely) that he composed the lectures in 1993. This is more of a poll than a post, I’m just wondering what other people think. Here’s my evidence:.
1. He mentions Lycos and Altavista all the time.
2. He says you should use up to a hundred keywords/1000 characters in the keyword metatag (and I noticed that SEOMoz doesn’t even use metatags). [From Rebecca: we don’t use the meta keyword tag.]
3. He says that commented out HTML that contains any of your keywords is counted as spam.
4. He says that javascript in the header will hurt your ranking, because search engines only cache a certain amount of the HMTL source.
5. He touts this $300/a year keyword software all the time from wordtracker.com (I’m pretty sure he’s in bed with them, and I’d much rather get a premium SEOMoz membership).
Basically the class has been a huge waste of time, I’m an SEO noob and I knew almost all the material before taking the course. I’m going to be asking for a refund, but I want a little more fuel for my angry, angry rant. Please advise.
