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Why SEO-blogs are ahead of German SEO-forums

Back in the day things were simple: There was Fireball and in the Suchmaschinentricks-forum (searchenginetricks-forum) users were discussing how often a keyword had to be repeated in the title or the filename to up front in the ranking. Then Google showed up, the amount of traffic from Searchengines grew rapidly, the Abakus-Forum opened its gates and searchengineoptimization became a “mainstream”-topic. Regardless of which qualified Internet-specialist magazine you opened up, everywhere there were experts who exemplified, in as much detail as possible, on one to two DIN-A4-pages that no modern webmaster could forgo the Googletricks.

Sadly, ever since that time, the quality of the SEO-forums has declined proportional to increase in users. Just as the magazine-experts had told them to, the modern webmasters signed up in the forums and tried to get as much from the community with as little effort as they could. Questions about the importance of the PageRank – even though it had been answered a hundred times before – are on the agenda every day, flimsy businessmen are trying to hawk links from already punished sites and if the Googleindex as much as shrugs there will regularly be abstruse theories about an alleged Google-technology-MCA. In short: the noise-signal-relationship is just not right anymore.

Even though, compared to the worldwide success, German Blogs might still be in their infancy, the SEO-scene has in the meanwhile become broadly diversified in a multitude of different blogs. Many of the blogs are filled with easily understandable and neatly researched articles written by professionals in the business. Of course, the informations in the blogs are also often redundant, since they are reported by more than one blog – though clicking forward on your feedreader only takes a second. It is often the case that subsequent to interesting articles there will discussions which usually have a higher quality than those on the forums. For me, Bloglines is, by now, repeatedly part of my daily reading while forums are checked maybe weekly at best, or if there is enough time.