Posts Tagged ‘failure’

People are not too keen on admitting failure. We want to see things succeed and prosper, and we want to know that it was our contributions that led to that success. Nevertheless, failure is an essential exercise. To not fail is to not have accomplished anything.

With that said, I will admit that this blog failed.

I hope that got your attention, so let me clarify. The blog as a whole did not fail, but a critical element did. It’s not necessarily bad that it failed as I learned some important lessons that I’m going to share.

So, what failed? In January, I introduced a new weekly series aimed at homepage improvement. In the initial post, I laid out a plan for the series and announced that it would occur every week.

That didn’t happen.

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Small businesses everywhere are clambering to get on the SEO express. However, many are missing the boat when it comes to expectations. People want instant results. They want to be number one for impossible keywords in an unrealistic amount of time.

Part of the blame goes to unethical SEO agencies who feed these insane beliefs, but a majority of it goes to uneducated small business owners.

SEO requires immense patience, dedication and ingenuity. Anything short of that will bring upon failure. Learn from your mistakes, get yourself familiarized with SEO tactics and try again.