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1. If a website was designed correctly and the designer offered sound advice on SEO fundamentals, would external SEO advice be needed, probably not.
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well the seo fundamentals are seo advice... maybe it's a trick question?
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2. SEO experts (although I don't believe there are any, due to Google's secrecy policy) should worked with web designers so quality products are designed from the start.
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there are plenty of seo experts. google may have secrets but the most important things are popular knowledge. of course it helps for a website's original designers to have good seo understanding.
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3. 95% of the websites I view from forums are rubbish, even good quality web designers are making basic errors. The obvious on is copying of the meta description tag throughout the site, to name one. Funnily enough these designers do not make the same errors on their own site.
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same meta description tags through the site ain't a major sin considering meta description tags are worth so little these days.
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4. I have no idea why SEO experts use complicated language when discussing SEO
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they use complicated terms and silly acronyms because they want to sound like important 'specialists'. it's a stubborn ego thing.
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In summary poor web designers are the reason people are turning to SEO experts, in the hope of a quick fix. This mess will continue until the whole industry is regulated or Google decides to offer their own quality fully optimised websites at reasonable prices. This will mean the end for the cowboys who do a 6 week HTML course, which can only be a good thing for everyone.
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google offer
googlepages for free, which should be good enough for people on a very low budget. regulations are rarely worth implementing.