I am a person who is easily annoyed – I have to admit to that. Not that I show my annoyance easily, I actually keep it to myself most of the time. When it comes to SEO, I have been annoyed so many times I cannot even begin to count them. I think that it is about time to share some of this annoyance with you guys. After all, misery (annoyance in this case) loves company. 
Annoying myth #1: SEO is all about tricking the search engines.
There are those people who think that the word “optimization” in search engine optimization is a euphemism for “trickery.” They think that SEO is simple trying to get one over on the search engines. If you have every dabbled in SEO – legitimate SEO – then you would know this to be totally false. SEO is all about providing the search engines with excellent web sites that adhere to their standards and this takes legitimate work, not trickery! It is debasing to even think that SEO is nothing but a sham.
Annoying myth#2: PPC highly influences SEO.
So why is this annoying? I have heard countless theories which some people hold to be true. Some say that a web site owner has to pay for a PPC (pay per click) campaign in order to get the best SEO results. Others say that if you have ads running on your web site, your SEO efforts will be lost. They are both extremes in the spectrum and they are both false. SEO is based on other things NOT the presence or absence of ads.
More myths in the next post.
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I understand totally why things like this annoy you so much, it’s one of those things which SEO and web development for the specific purposes of promoting a sites presense in search engines has generally been given a bad name over the years by those who have choosen to use bad methods to do so, aka the “black hat” Seo’s.
Seo methods don’t have to be dodgy just to get top 5 google rankings, I was getting that in a few months from learning the basics from sites just like yours. I beleive my first was “Facebook Reviews”, and it’s not like I have a great page rank, or an old site, or huge amounts of content in that area.
It was just a few well written reviews which I made good use of key words, in many facets of SEO’ing and linked it in well. my site http://www.infinitepixelstudios.com should be raising up to page rank 4 soon, so I hope to aim to improve my “mobile games” ranking next, but that is far more competetive, than the Facebook stuff, and my google code.
Copy thief. I saw this exact post on E-consultancy earlier in the week - you have simply rewritten it. That is rubbish.