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Search Engine Journal has a nice piece on 7 SEO myths. It argues that these practices, while once rooted in reality, really need to die. My favorite (myth) that needs to be busted is spammy comments/forum posts will build link juice.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/d...believe/31511/
I've seen plenty of these and this one included - it's crazy that some people believe some of them.
Gotta agree with you there, although judging by the amount of spam comments my blog gets (at least 1 an hour!), I get the feeling the myth will live on for a good few years yet!Quote:
Originally Posted by vinism
Great article!Thanks for sharing :)
I totally agree with the myth N4 about more content always being better :)
Seeing as there was only 6 myths in the "top 7" article I'll add number 7.
7. Google PageRank matters.
If I had a dollar for every time someone offered to sell me links on a blog filled with either machine generated articles or articles written by barely literate students being paid $5 an hour that has PR3 (wow!!!) because they bought an expired domain that has almost zero incoming links and is worthless - and they want more than $2 for a link - then I would be a very very rich man.
you are getting page rank and the google page rank toolbar mixed up mate. page rank is worth considering but that little green bar in the toolbar means nothing
Haha if I had a dollar every time I would probably be on a beach by now! I've given up ranting about it, let them focus on something useless :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Muppet
Very good tips! But now one grabbed my attention.
I have read that keywords in the meta tags have no importance any more, but I still tend to use them, more out of habit than anything else. I don't keyword stuff though, just pop 1 or 2 keywords in the metatages.
Should I ditch them altogether?