Google is the Web's most popular search engine, powering not only the popular Google Website, but also Yahoo! and AOL. Being listed in Google is very important, and being listed highly in Google can bring great benefit to your site. However, there are many myths about how Google works and, while fairly harmless in themselves, these myths tend to allow people to draw incorrect conclusions about how Google works. The purpose of this article is to correct the most popular Google myths. Myth 1: The Higher Your Google Page Rank (PR), the Higher You'll be in the Search Results Listing Myth 2: The Google Toolbar will List Your Actual Page Rank Myth 3: Page Rank is a Value Based on the Number of Incoming Links to Your Site Myth 4: Searching for Incoming Links on Google Using "link:" will Show you all Your Backwards Links Myth 5: Being Listed in the Open Directory Project Gives you a Special Page Rank Bonus Myth 6: Being Listed in Yahoo! Gives you a Special Page Rank Bonus Myth 7: Google Uses Meta Tags to Rank Your Site Myth 8: Google Will Not Index Dynamic Pages Myth 9: Google Will Not List Your Site, or Penalize it, if you use Pop ups Myth 10: Google will Penalize you if You're Linked to by a Link Farm http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/top-10-google-myths-revealed/1
Myth 7: Google Uses Meta Tags to Rank Your Site I disagree. I believe that Google algorithm is an onion formula. Where the original forumula received additions and paramethers every year more complex. Metatags helps in indexing and keyword. Maybe not in ranking. I also believe that metatags are used only at first passage of site from crawlers and then are not used anymore. I once tried with typos and found that they are not read by crawlers, using the example of seraching your typos on metatag, but somehow they are into google because when I add the typo to a 3 words search, then the site pops up. My impression is that metatags are read at first only. I know no one believes this.
Have you tested that? You see, no one tells meta description is not indexed - it is. But it doesn't influence the rank - that's what the myth is telling.
Google will really penalize you if you do this...I have seen it for 2 of my sites...any ways its not just about link farms but low quality, irrelevant links from any where will harm your site if built excessively...especially for new sites, though not old players
It would be nice to see some facts or case studies for each of these myths.....I have reviewed so many case studies that agree with your list, however it would be nice to see some examples posted with your original post. thanks for sharing
Yes, I was talking about indexing. More than PR. However I had made a small study on typos. I found that certain typo used as keywords helps in getting a better google position. It's a difficult semantic game. Once you find a typo, test it on google and see "did you mean" if appears your word. In this case google will use the typo as an additional duplicate keyword. So if you say on your keywords wine wine wine. That counts for 1 wine if you write wine, red wyne, white winnie, that counts for 3 times wine. Worth trying
Come on, do you really know what you're talking about ??? Most of your list is completely wrong !!! Don't mislead people in here !! #4 is wrong - NOT All #5 & #6 is mostly wrong - based on the listings category #8 is way to wrong to be true | Google Do index dynamic pages #9 again this is also wrong #10 this one is so FUNNY How come Google will penalize a site for being listed in a link farm ??? What if your competitors linked to your own site from a link farm, will your site gets penalized ? Think again
May be you need to re-read the message carefully, before answering it. These were MYTHs - that is: facts that are not true.
lol, Never noticed that Thanks for the heads up, people in DP keeps on posting wrong info.. that's why I though it's just another MISS LEADING list. REP for you
Myth 1: yes I just checked my competitors and it's PR. There seems not to be any logic and correlation inbetween PR and positionning. So why are we so much after PR and not towards positionning. What makes good to positionning?
There is also a link to a sitepoint article where the topic starter copied it from. It's good you should read it.