{"id":4005,"date":"2021-12-16T14:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/google-you-cant-tell-which-seo-efforts-led-to-ranking-success\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T14:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:22:49","slug":"google-you-cant-tell-which-seo-efforts-led-to-ranking-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/google-you-cant-tell-which-seo-efforts-led-to-ranking-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Google: You Can&#8217;t Tell Which SEO Efforts Led To Ranking Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Mueller from Google shared something both funny and mostly true about SEO tasks. He basically said that it is often hard or even sometimes impossible to know which SEO tasks led to ranking success, even after it is all set and done.  John said on Twitter &#8220;you can&#8217;t even tell afterwards&#8221; which SEO tasks worked or not.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=-_QmnlZz8gY:ccf7JnMiV9Q:UCg8P_nGCaA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=UCg8P_nGCaA\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=-_QmnlZz8gY:ccf7JnMiV9Q:yIl2AUoC8zA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=-_QmnlZz8gY:ccf7JnMiV9Q:hl8ANDcrVaY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=hl8ANDcrVaY\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=-_QmnlZz8gY:ccf7JnMiV9Q:V-t1I-SPZMU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=V-t1I-SPZMU\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=-_QmnlZz8gY:ccf7JnMiV9Q:Gu391qSwH_A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=Gu391qSwH_A\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=-_QmnlZz8gY:ccf7JnMiV9Q:cGdyc7Q-1BI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=-_QmnlZz8gY:ccf7JnMiV9Q:V_sGLiPBpWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=-_QmnlZz8gY:ccf7JnMiV9Q:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=-_QmnlZz8gY:ccf7JnMiV9Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=-_QmnlZz8gY:ccf7JnMiV9Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=-_QmnlZz8gY:ccf7JnMiV9Q:MbsSfiz-sEw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=MbsSfiz-sEw\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=-_QmnlZz8gY:ccf7JnMiV9Q:qj6IDK7rITs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mueller from Google shared something both funny and mostly true about SEO tasks. He basically said that it is often hard or even sometimes impossible to know which SEO tasks led to ranking success, even after it is all set and done. John said on Twitter &#8220;you can&#8217;t even tell afterwards&#8221; which SEO tasks worked or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}