7 SEO myths that need to be busted

[vinism]

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/

[Mysterio]

I've seen plenty of these and this one included - it's crazy that some people believe some of them.

[davemerry]

My favorite (myth) that needs to be busted is spammy comments/forum posts will build link juice.

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!

[TheBoy]

Great article!Thanks for sharing
I totally agree with the myth N4 about more content always being better

[Muppet]

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.

[thebookiesoffers]

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

[davemerry]

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.

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

[Topboss]

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?