For decades now, many SEOs have disagreed with Googlers about how to do SEO and how to rank sites well in Google Search. Some of those who disagree feel Google is either lying to the industry, some feel those Googlers don’t know the answer and some feel they just know better.

John Mueller of Google tweeted about this the other day when he was asked to detail what is wrong with an article on Google ranking factors. He said on Twitter “When Googlers give corrections, there are often claims that it’s not true – be it from Googlers wanting to mislead, or them being incompetent.”

The funny thing, this just happened on Reddit on the topic of keyword density where John gave his advice, saying not to focus on that as a metric and someone said in response to John “don’t agree with you, have you done any SEO recently to test this? I have.”

Here was what John wrote on the topic of keyword density:

The SEO’s response:

Here is John’s tweet about this in general:

It is always interesting to see SEOs disagree with Googlers. Sure, they are human, they can get things wrong here and there. But when you see a Googler say something over and over again, and keep seeing some say that is wrong, it makes you wonder why…

Sure – you should test everything yourself but when a Googler disagrees, maybe use that as a sign to think about how you tested it originally and come up with new testing plans?

Forum discussion at Twitter.