SEO is a Waste of Time in 2025

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Why does the video say it is? Do you agree, and to what amount?
 

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Econical
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SEO is not really hard if you don’t have money it’s a time game with dedication and consistency. If you have money this could still fail if you don’t offer something the consumer wants.
 

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Econical wrote: Thu Jul 03, 2025 10:25 pm SEO is not really hard if you don’t have money it’s a time game with dedication and consistency. If you have money this could still fail if you don’t offer something the consumer wants.
It can also fail if ad money is used unwisely, despite doing what the customer wants.
 

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About 30 pages are indexed on Google for my message board, and I've only received one click in the last 30 days. With that being said, I think it's harder than it used to be to find an audience using SEO.
 

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Just keep posting keywords sentences titles that would come up in a search and let the crawlers do the rest.
 

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Cory wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 10:50 pm About 30 pages are indexed on Google for my message board, and I've only received one click in the last 30 days. With that being said, I think it's harder than it used to be to find an audience using SEO.
It takes a lot more than that, but I admire your effort.
 

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Econical wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 10:57 pm Just keep posting keywords sentences titles that would come up in a search and let the crawlers do the rest.
This doesn't help at all, you have to build backlinks to your keywords. If you don't, you won't rank for said keywords.
 

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cpvr wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 4:21 am
Econical wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 10:57 pm Just keep posting keywords sentences titles that would come up in a search and let the crawlers do the rest.
This doesn't help at all, you have to build backlinks to your keywords. If you don't, you won't rank for said keywords.
Yeah, the way mentioned in the first quote might have worked in the very early days of SEO.
 

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Jason wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 9:53 am
cpvr wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 4:21 am
Econical wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 10:57 pm Just keep posting keywords sentences titles that would come up in a search and let the crawlers do the rest.
This doesn't help at all, you have to build backlinks to your keywords. If you don't, you won't rank for said keywords.
Yeah, the way mentioned in the first quote might have worked in the very early days of SEO.
You're right. The web has advanced so much over the years with a lot more competition that it takes a lot more work to rank these days, especially with user intent.

A mixture of backlinks from social media, forum signatures, directories and blogs can help you rank well though. Along with reddit.
 

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cpvr wrote: Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:56 am
Jason wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 9:53 am
cpvr wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 4:21 am

This doesn't help at all, you have to build backlinks to your keywords. If you don't, you won't rank for said keywords.
Yeah, the way mentioned in the first quote might have worked in the very early days of SEO.
You're right. The web has advanced so much over the years with a lot more competition that it takes a lot more work to rank these days, especially with user intent.

A mixture of backlinks from social media, forum signatures, directories and blogs can help you rank well though. Along with reddit.
I got one site which has more SEO promise present. I'm wondering how to get it over the top. It currently needs it's SEO power tripled, but my other ones need to be quadrupled.
 

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