15 SEO Myths - Host Discussion Blog

jepot · 11-07-2008, 07:43 AM

15 SEO Myths
1)Submitting site to search engine is useless as the site is only listed to it till any other site do not list there.

2)META tags don't affect your rankings. The search engines ignore META keyword and description tags for ranking purposes, for an obvious reason: Taking the webmasters' word for what their site should rank well for would be a pretty stupid way for the engines to rank pages.

3)I should focus on getting great rankings rather than making sure my visitors become customers. After all, it's not how many sales I make, it's how many people walk through the door -- or maybe even just how many people just see the door without walking in.

4)Instead of creating good and very useful post i would like to go for short and nice post.As they do not take much time and reader also do not get bored.

5) Also on the above point i will try to focus to get more visitors as it increase link popularity

6)6. It's a good idea to make my keywords invisible, such as by having white letters on a white background.

FACT: The engines are not stupid. But stupid tricks like invisible text can get your site penalized by some engines. Focusing on tricks is a waste of time.

7)Search engines can't deal with framed sites, or they penalize framed sites..

8)Sites that use javascript get penalized.

9)I should try to rank well for a single-word term instead of the 2- to 3-word phrases that searchers actually use and that I actually have a hope of ranking well for.

10)Most of my traffic should come from one or two search phrases, rather than hundreds, most of which haven't even occurred to me.

11)Any time my rankings go up or down, I should assume that it's the result of some change I made. Even better, if my rankings drop I should assume that someone at Google manually looked at my site and penalized it.

12) Any time my rankings change, or even disappear from the results, I should consider that change permanent.

13) All visitors start at the front
page of my site.

14)The sites with the highest "PageRank" will always rank higher in the SERPs.

15)I should consider another site's PageRank when deciding whether to link to them or whether to ask for a link.

seocorporation · 05-31-2011, 11:39 PM

C'mon Dear..these are very common things every one doing SEO is quite well versed with.
What are your ideas about redirects

michaelbish · 05-31-2011, 11:58 PM

In internet marketing, there are tons of myths and are almost like a plague. Unfortunately, many new vendors hear these myths and take as s gospel.That why it is important to read about search engine optimization from various sources before taking actions that could ruin ranking of a website.