Comments on: 5 Search Engine Optimization Myths I Like To Laugh At

By: namecritic

namecritic — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:27:07 +0000

The question I have is “Why is it whenever a post is made about SEO, we always get comments based on what google does or does not do?”

Google optimization is a necessary part of SEO, but google is not the only source of traffic, so only applying what google does when discussing an idea leaves out a lot of what SEO is about.

For instance, does anyone know for a fact that yahoo and msn ignore the keywords metatag? How about ask.com? Personally, I want traffic from other source besides google just as much as I want google traffic, so I like to cover all the bases. Using the keywords meta doesn’t hurt you, so why would you ever leave it blank?

By: internet marketing

internet marketing — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:38:34 +0000

Laughable SEO Myth #3 – The keywords meta tag must be filled in. Actually, none of your meta tags MUST be filled in. The search engines will still crawl your pages and rank them. Your meta tags can influence how you appear in the search engine results pages. Even then, there’s no guarantee because Google has been known to ignore keywords tags and description tags altogether. That doesn’t mean you should leave them blank. It doesn’t mean you can’t either.

Google ignores the meta tag keywords but there is no way you can say that G ignores the description tag. Unless you have a DMOZ listing, Google will most likely show your description tag in their SERPs.

By: namecritic

namecritic — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:59:24 +0000

Myth #6 – Google likes CSS better than HTML therefore CSS built websites rank higher than html websites.

An SEO company told one of my clients this one recently. I’m still laughing. CSS is very useful. CSS is less code. CSS is a good thing. CSS will not necessarily get you ranked better in any search engines.

By: Eric Martindale

Eric Martindale — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:32:42 +0000

Put up a web page and link it to another one and you’ll get crawled. Simple as that. Now you can finish laughing.

Put up a web page and link to it from another one and you’ll get crawled. Simple as that. Now you can finish laughing.