How Getting Overly Obsessed with Search Engine Optimization Can Kill Your Online Business 

How’s that for an advice coming from a guy who eats, sleeps and breathes Search Engine Optimization? If the truth be told, I should be aiming to convince people that SEO is the holy grail of internet success rather than repelling them. Just to make it clear, I am in full senses and not in a mood to shoot myself in the foot.

So when I say, don’t get infatuated with search engine optimization and rankings, I m primarily addressing the online business owners and not SEO professionals (yes, it’s alright to be fanatical about search engines, back links, rankings and the likes, if you are an SEO professional, even though a multi-talented SEO is still better than a mere link developer).

Nevertheless, let’s take a look at how SEO syndrome can hurt your website in due course.

Listening more to some SEO nerd rather than listening to your customers:

First downside of getting fixated with this ranking stuff … you will start paying more attention to what SEO techies a [...]
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