Eli Schwartz

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Sep 27, 2018
Insight
Schwartz: Many candidates with SEO resumes do not actually understand SEO
“Looking at a resume, I've looked at many resumes of people that have done SEO, and I've discovered they don't really know anything about SEO. They've just done SEO. When you talk to someone that would be good in this seat, And that doesn't even have to be as s…”
Eli Schwartz Sep 27, 2018 ▶ 43:06 SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
Sep 27, 2018 neutral
Insight
Schwartz: Google rankings no longer reward raw backlink quantity
“Links are still very important, but they're not important in the sense that they used to be where people measure them by quantity. Like, my competitor has a hundred links to this page, I need a 101 links, and if I get a 101 links, then I will guarantee rank ah…”
Eli Schwartz Sep 27, 2018 ▶ 23:19 SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
Sep 27, 2018 positive
Opinion
Schwartz: Google Search Console is more accurate than third-party tools
“And my favorite search tool is, is Google Search Console because it, it's from Google. It may or may not be as accurate as can be, but it's probably more accurate than other tools which are sort of projecting what the actual truth is.”
Eli Schwartz Sep 27, 2018 ▶ 3:00 SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
Sep 27, 2018 negative
Insight
Schwartz: E-commerce sites need custom cross-linking, not standard plugins
“When it comes to e-commerce, There has to be a good plug-in or something built internally because you're not going to want to have, like, say, a red sweater cross-linked over to, like, a dog leash, right? So, like, that's where a plug-in that sort of, you know…”
Eli Schwartz Sep 27, 2018 ▶ 5:50 SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
Sep 27, 2018
Insight
Schwartz: Plan SEO before choosing an e-commerce platform
“In any e-commerce company thinking about SEO, they should have thought about SEO before they chose their e-commerce platform.”
Eli Schwartz Sep 27, 2018 ▶ 2:16 SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
Sep 27, 2018 negative
Insight
Schwartz: Passively waiting for organic search traffic can take years
“You can't hope for organic. You could wait like years for the organic traffic to show up. You need to be proactive about that.”
Eli Schwartz Sep 27, 2018 ▶ 21:10 SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
Sep 27, 2018 positive
Insight
Schwartz: Randomizing URL cross-links is an effective SEO strategy
“One thing I found to be very effective for cross-linking is just randomization. So if you randomize your URLs, you make sure that provided your randomization algorithm is correct. Every single URL ends up being cross-linked. So if users click it, great. If the…”
Eli Schwartz Sep 27, 2018 ▶ 6:19 SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
Sep 27, 2018 negative
Opinion
Schwartz: Tracking keyword rankings is obsolete and distracts from users
“I no longer believe in ever measuring keyword rankings, like as we discussed, we're focusing on a user, so it's not just generic rankings.”
Eli Schwartz Sep 27, 2018 ▶ 44:38 SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
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