But, honestly, it’s fair to have one(or a few). Because there are lot of changes happening, and algorithm updates that it’s not possible for everyone to stay updated and tuned on SEO. Many of us bloggers have certain SEO misconceptions just because we haven’t updated ourselves, aligning to Google.
Here are some SEO misconceptions that I found common with more than one person while engaging in conversations with them. Feel free to share your thoughts on them. I hope you will clear them and grow yourself up to SEO 2.0 and break out of the old-school SEO kid image.
Essentially, it means that there is no formula for SEO available, that if applied will give you instant results. All the metrics have to be weighed and calculated to design the right strategy for each website.
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“search engines can spider links inside flash files embedded, and even crawl text in flash files”
That was some news for me!! Thank you for this info!
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I am not Interested in ” Keywords “.
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@Srijith, yes it’s true and happening, there are guidelines for it though. But yes, Google couldn’t ditch flash altogether you know.
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Traffic does not help in SEO – some web has 0 visitor and PR > 3, hm, is it OK?
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PR, is purely based on who links to you, so a website can have PR7 even if a PR 8 links to it, but no traffic. Traffic is purely based on site content and how good it is, there can be websites with PR 0 but loads of traffic (porn sites are good examples). I dont think PR is significant in SEO as other metrics.
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I’m with you on all these misconceptions on SEO and in fact #4 is what I have learned from you despite the contradicting school of thoughts I believe in your theory simply because it does make sense to me.
Yan
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great list… btw.. you have any idea when the next PR update is coming?
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Irvin, I’m guessing that it should be in about the next two months. Google have been non-predictable and irregular at it – cleverly.
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I agree with almost everything you have said, one thing I didn’t know about was about META tag descriptions, the very first point
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nice article its help me alot.
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