Comments on: 5 SEO Myths

By: Amateur Protagonist SEO

Amateur Protagonist SEO — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:41:20 +0000

I believe using as many different SEO methods as you can will pay off. If it does not work on google it may work on another search engine.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:52:44 +0000

#1 – You are right that you don’t need to submit your site to Google, in fact if you do, it will take 2-3 months for it to show up. But if your site is not referenced anywhere, you do need to consider this. Better yet, submit your site to DIGG, Stumbleupon, del.icio.us, Propeller, ODP, and Technorati. This will get you indexed in Google within 1 week.

#2 – True, you don’t need to update your website regularly, but if all else is consistent between your site and your competitors, who do you think will have the better SERP?

#3 – As far as heading tags are concerned, this is the 3rd most valuable SEO item to use. I can give references if you want, but you can find out for yourself if you know how to use a search engine. However, if you do use the tag, be aware that this tag can be used only once per page.

#4 – Are you talking about an XML sitemap here? Let’s assume you use flash or javascript for your navigation. You tell me how a search spider is gonna find all of your web pages – please!!

#5 – You are correct that meta keywords have no effect – unless you are optimizing for Yahoo. Yahoo still uses meta keywords; see here: http://www.seobook.com/why-seos-should-use-meta-keywords-tag-their-homepage.

In retrospect, if you want to get serious about SEO, there are several sites that offer free advice, tools, and tutorials. 3 of my favorites are http://webceo.com/, http://www.seobook.com/, and http://searchengineland.com/

By: Marion Nesmith

Marion Nesmith — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:46:42 +0000

I’m really shocked about this article. Let’s just take “keywords”. You have fallen into the GOOGLE, GOOGLE, GOOGLE mindset. There are so many more search engines that “DO” still use keywords. The combine’s total traffic of the other search engines is greater than google. Ignore any of these and you are not going to realize the sites potential query space.

Also …crawl rate… can you please tell me when a site is going to be crawled???? If you can determine this great, let me know, I’ll certainly use this little piece of insider information.

By: wrs website optimalisatie

wrs website optimalisatie — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:36:48 +0000

1. You dont have to submit your site over and over to google, in so far correct but if a site is totally fresh and has no incoming links it cant hurt to submit it once.

2. Google like to show the MOST RELAVANT pages first in the ranks for a specific query but what if you have to pages which are same old and relevant, yep it will show the one who is last updated because it assumes that this information is more accurate. Just try to update a page, and not realy saving it again, but updating (changing)it and you will see something does change if your not on no.1 to see the difference.

3. H1 ones are NOT a mandatory, correct, still i use them.

4. Correct, i rank good without a sitemap from google but it helps to get fresh content listed and updated faster.

5. People always say google ignores keywords, might be true but i still use them because other SE do read them.
There is a little voice in my head that says that google will not give you a plus value by it but it might give you a lesser rank if you use keywords not listed in your body text and your actually abusing your keyword tag.

By: David Shaw

David Shaw — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:18:14 +0000

@Seologia
Looks like we will have to disagree, if you can give me some proper proof then I will more than happily agree, but I myself and many other top website owners discredit the effect of META Keywords.
I will also be keeping the nofollow link to my rss feed. (You obviously know little about SEO if you dont nofollow to your rss)

By: Seología

Seología — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:45:33 +0000

Your “myths” are not accurate. I myself have proved number 5 to be incorrect. Oh, and if I were you (since you know that much about SEO), I’d remove that nofollow from your RSS Link.

By: David Shaw

David Shaw — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:05:03 +0000

Inbound links and title tags are in my opinion what you need to build up from.

By: Dr Richard

Dr Richard — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:07:26 +0000

I agree with all of these. The overall effect of optimising your pages using these techniques seems to be fairly small these days compared to other factors such as inbound links

By: Mike Carr

Mike Carr — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:25:13 +0000

Number 3 is one that I believe is a Myth and yet I still use H1 tags.

And Meta Keywords is something that I have not put as much effort into lately.

Mike