Hey, There are a lot of myths in seo. I hear conflicting opinions on basic seo ideas in this forum all of the time. For newbs (me!!) it can be confusing to filter out the myths (aka "BS") from the facts. In your opinion, what are the biggest seo myths that keep getting spread around here at DP?
Reciprocal links aren't useless. They're still valued but not as much as one-way links and they can be used to a degree in a successful SEO campaign.
In your effort to find your answers you'll just find more myths, you should know by now who provides valuable information and who doesn't. Speaking of myths spreading, you spread a few yourself.
Hey mate. It's interesting to see who feels one way on an issue, and who feels exactly the opposite. I also learn A LOT by asking these general questions. Sometimes things that I never would have thought about pop up and open new roads up for me. It's a great learning process, and that's what I'm here for. I have learned quite a bit by reading some of your posts and replies. I also learned a thing or two by looking at your funny picture site (I am a true fan of it now). I have spread myths? Cool! Which ones? This will help me.
I'm not going to go through all the threads, but the better way to say it is you spread "out-dated" information sometimes, if you want when I see a post by you I'll gladly shoot you a PM about it. As for your idea of this thread it's great, but the problem with DP is 90% of it's users are new to SEO.
Yes, please. If you see me saying ANYTHING that you believe to be wrong, please do PM me. We may end up disagreeing, but that sure would help me to learn by looking for more information. For instance, yesterday I believe it was, a member here that I really respect said that duplicate content has nothing to do with the supplemental index. That conflicted what I thought to be correct, and led me to learning a lot more about the supplemental index. Conflicts are a fantastic tool for learning!!! Yep, most of us here are newbs. That's another great reason for airing out all of the conflicts right here. Us newbs tend to see something here and take it as the word of "god". That's not a good thing. (sorry, I don't know how to quote multiple sources) To Scottscd------ Hmmm... That's very interesting! Almost everyone here says they are garbage now. In what way would that be wrong? That's very intriguing. To Markas------- PR is a joke, unless you are using that PR as a basis for pricing to sell links. At least this is the "standard" statement around here. I would love to hear someone that thinks otherwise try to debunk that.
They can't be entirely useless because think about it. Say I had a legitimate link on a website because of an article or something. This then means I can't link to their site on my page if I find an interesting story I'd like to share on my blog or other pages because it would destroy the value of the link I'm getting. They're de-valued yeah but if you have the opportunity to get a reciprocal link on a very powerful site I wouldn't turn it down.
Most of us are newbs at this, at least in the sense things keep changing so there is something new to learn or adjust. BTW, I have been doing this for over 9 years now..
A 9 year veteran newb? lol Yes, I see what you mean. The algos and understanding keeps changing constantly, so in that sense we are all newbs. Great point!! Scottscd----- Well, that does make a lot of sense doesn't it? I want to think about that a bit.
Hi, I started doing SEO just recently and got about 4 articles listed at this point, and right now in the process of adding another 16 articles to my site. Started doing internal SEO just recently anything else that I need to focus on to get higher rankings? Thanks!
I am very new too. I read posts here every day, and ask a lot of questions. Then I compare answers and thoughts to find things that don't match, and thoughts that do match. Then I dig around for more info. It works for me, I think.
I think that the biggest SEO myth is chasing the green pagerank bar, Pagerank has very low influence in SERP's
I actually like to "counter" this, and the biggest SEO myth is that PR is 100% irrelevant to influence the G SERP. If PR doesn't influence the ranking at all, why Matt Cutts and his team penalized some directories and those sites that sell links? Such sites thus lost PR, as well as their rankings in Google SERP. The fact is that PR can influence in the rankings, it's just not that strong factor as it used to be. Good backlinks are more direct to influence the G SERP, but then PR will also increase naturally. So, all in all PR is a part of SEO game as long as Google doesn't change the algo. for PR too much.