Lucid SEO
November 27, 2007 – 3:13 pm
I got a couple of promotions for this one, so I thought I’d have a quick look at it. If you’ve been thinking of buying Lucid SEO, think again. It’s not anywhere near as good as the sales page wants you to think.
The sales page claims that SEO is a lot easier than most SEO experts and consultants wants you to believe. David, Tim and Roy are absolutely right. On the ground level, SEO is very simple. Basic SEO is just that. Basic. If you do things right, you’ll outrank the competition quite easily. But that’s only basic SEO.
It goes without saying that if you apply basic SEO to your sites, you will easily outrank those that don’t apply basic SEO. The fact is that most site owners don’t apply SEO to their sites, so you will have an advantage over those sites.
The author lets you in on such basic things as applying keywords to the title-tags, using <h1> and <h2> to emphasize titles and subtitles in the content, using the alt-property for images and links, properly applying keywords as anchor text for your links, and using meta tags for keywords and descriptions.
You also get some basic knowledge when it comes to off-site optimization (read: link-building) by using Free Directiories, Squidoo, blogs, comments on other peoples’ blogs, and using articles in article directories.
Then you get a quick summary of the things mentioned above, coupled with a roadmap to get you started doing the things you’ve just been taught.
Lucid SEO is quite worthless to be honest. Go to Google, do a search for seo +forum and you’ll get a lot more information, a lot better information and a bigger insight to what SEO is really all about.
If this guide was another $7 or $9.97 offer, I’d say “go for it”, but it isn’t. It’s $79 friggin bucks. It’s nowhere near being good enough to justify that price. This is complete and utter crap. I’m sorry to have to say that, but it’s the truth.
If you want to learn basic SEO – find an SEO forum and you’ll get a lot of good quality information on SEO – for free.
5 Responses to “Lucid SEO”
Thanks Bjorn, you saved my time and money. I was going to review it – but now I don’t need to.
Marian
By Marian on Nov 27, 2007
Thanks for the warning Bjorn:-)
Keep up the good work.
Your views and input are invalueable.
By Abi on Nov 27, 2007
Bjorn,
You are right on! I listened to a teleseminar for the pre-launch and it sounded good. I checked their sites and stats. Went ahead with the purchase and was shocked to find that it was just basic SEO with backlinks from Squidoo, Article Directories, etc.
If a person just started a website yesterday or was completely brand new and never built a website before… they MIGHT qualify for this
I can’t believe they have raised the price to $197! This is only a $7 report in my opinion. I think it’s kind of sneaky how they temp you to stay with them past the return period of 90 days with the promises of future reports…
I will be asking for a refund on this one. Only wish I would have seen your review first!
Jeff
By Slim Seduction on Nov 30, 2007
Marian, Abi:
I’m glad you found the post useful
Jeff:
There is so much better information available out there for free.
I absolutely agree, but I don’t think even a complete novice would have any use for this one. Not even might
And $197? Anyone buying at THAT price should be approved for a free brain examination :O
By Bjorn on Nov 30, 2007
Glad i foun this blog i was going to bye it and check it out seems its overpriced so i will give it a miss thanks guys.
By Annett on Jul 19, 2008