Brodie Clark posted an interesting poll on Twitter asking if the SEO community agreed or not. The poll asked do you agree or disagree that "if you're selling SEO as a service, it is important that your own website has good SEO."
The results showed that 75% agreed with this statement, while 25% disagreed. There were 1,450 responses to the thread, 16.6% of which just wanted to see the results - so I took those out to do these calculations.
Here is the poll:
Similar response on LinkedIn:
Here are some of the responses that I found interesting on the thread:
This is my situation as well.
— Kelly Stanze | May Actually Be a Hobbit (@KellyStanze) May 13, 2022
I feel this! I have a website for my fiction work but between my last job that destroyed my soul and my new role in digital marketing (which I'm still learning) I don't have time to sort it out. I felt really conscious when my employer asked to see it but they loved it aha
— Zoe Collinson - Content Creator (@ContentByZoeC) May 13, 2022
Whilst I voted "agree" - it's not necessarily that a site needs to be perfect from every single angle, but it should not include things like links to a G+ profile, or a link to a suspended twitter account or touting myth-based tactics
— Peter Mindenhall (@PeterMindenhall) May 13, 2022
I felt a lot of pressure to do it, and personally I refuse to let that dominate how I make $$$.
— Jess Joyce 👩💻 (@jessjoyce) May 12, 2022
Billable hours take priority. Simple as that.
— Remco Tensen (@RemcoTensen) May 12, 2022
You know what they say about the shoemaker...
Forum discussion at Twitter.