As I’m sure you’ve heard, good rolled out a new Algo update a few days ago, which they are calling the “Freshness update”. According to google this new update will affect 35% of search queries, and is based on their caffiened update. As the name implies, this update is aimed at providing search results which pull the most current information on a topic.

Ok so let’s face it, its not as easy at it use to be to make money online weather it be from websites, blogs, forum communities, or anything else. the competition is tougher, google is smart, and scariest of all the average internet user is more educated. Browsers make it easy for people to block ads, images, and pop ups. Even if you can get past those walls, people are now banner blind. When is that last time a banner made you want to click on anything???

The other day, my buddy “Kevin: who is a successful young poker affiliate made a post at PAL where he shared his latest project of building a simple and well planned out poker affiliate site. The new site is Best Poker Site – Now, on any given day I would guess there are 100 new poker portals going up around the world. Hell, it maybe as many as a 1000 a day or more, who knows. What I do know is that 99% of them will never make money, and be abandoned within the first few months.

This going to be a bit of a follow up article on my last post “Real SEO Is Work“. After speaking with a few of my closest friends, we all agreed that there is a ton of misinformation going around about SEO on one of our favorite forums. I honestly think that a few people are intentionally misleading people with bad advice, and promises of instant SEO success.

The title of this article says it all. Real SEO to your website takes actual work and there is no shortcuts to hard work. If you want to have a successful website you are going to have to make a commitment to hard work, dedication to offering your visitors something of value, and above all you must be creative.