search: More SEO Myth Debunking
- 12/02/09 12:43 AM
I'm still seeing some rather obsurd SEO advice on the web. Here are two direct quotes from a fairly well respected web design blog, and they are fairly common beliefs about SEO that are just wrong. “You’ll already get a slight increase in rankings from a validated site, without even taking content into consideration.” If you watch this video you’ll see that around 1:30 Google’s spokesperson very clearly says there is no boost whatsoever for having a validated website: Your Tube Interview with Matt Cutts “Flash websites are pretty much ignored by Google.” According to an article about flash on google’s … (14 comments)
search: What Does NOT Help You Rank Higher on Search Engines
- 12/28/07 01:44 AM
Search engines are not mystical beings that are moved by the correct sequence of cerimonial rituals. Search engines are simply trying to bring the best results to their users for their searches. If you just use some basic logic as to how a search engine might determine the best results you can rule out a lot of common myths that people claim help you rank higher, here are a few that I've been seeing lately: Resubmitting your web site to the search engines regularly. This helps nothing, search engines are smart enough to know how often you update your web site, resubmitting … (18 comments)
search: Google Update, Good News for the Little Guy
- 12/17/07 05:00 AM
You may have noticed an increase in your page rank if you don't spend large quantities of money on web advertising, but you do have a fairly decent amount of natural links to your site. This is due to the latest google update which removes the value from paid advertisements when calculating where your web sites rank in the search results. The big guys with multi-million dollar advertising budgets, who buy banner ads all over the web, may find themselves getting knocked down several slots in the search results. How has this update affected you? How are you going to capitalize on … (3 comments)
I'm still seeing some rather obsurd SEO advice on the web. Here are two direct quotes from a fairly well respected web design blog, and they are fairly common beliefs about SEO that are just wrong.
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