There are a lot of myths in the modern world and SEO is not exempt from this. I was reading a very interesting article by Joey de Villa wherein he detailed his notes from Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto. Take a look at some of them and see if you believe them OR if you can be a myth buster.
You have to submit URLs to search engines. Search engines will find you if people link to you. If people are linking to your site, you don’t have to go around submitting its URL to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and so on.
I used to believe this – like eons ago. That was even before I started blogging. I guess I didn’t know anything after all.
You need to provide a Google site map. It’s nice, but it’s not really going to help. “Most sites are spiderable the way they are.” If you have a site with millions of pages that changes often and your system can auto-generate a map, then mmmmaybe…
I still see some blogs and articles which encourage site maps. What’s your take on this?
Frequent spidering helps rankings. If it’s already indexed, getting it spidered again isn’t going to do much.
This makes a lot of sense. Once a site is indexed, it probably wouldn’t really make much of a difference if it is spidered another time, within a short period of time, would it?
PPC ads will help organic rankings! PPC ads will hurt organic rankings. Google keeps its search engine and Adwords divisions separate and it appears that your ranking are not affected by whethe ror not you’ve bought pay per click ads.
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Interesting reading. As a relative newbe in this I am just wondering where you go if you really want to get in deep with these things.
And who makes the guide lines for how the google spidersystem works?
Who has the insider knowledge to take most advantage of the system in terms of googleranking.
Its kind of confusing.
chillout downbeat triphop electronic
I believe its best search engine
Good info as always!
Thanks!