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    Myths about SEO

    Please list any myths that you have seen or heard about SEO. Just wanting to learn as much as I can about all thisMyths about SEO Much thanks.

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    Kat1

    Kat1

    You do not have to link all your pages for the spiders to see them.
    11 years ago

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    Tommy Matalino

    Tommy Matalino

    SEO copy must be 250 words in length.
    More at: http://searchengineland.com/top-te...-seo-myths-12052
    11 years ago

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    mqss

    mqss

    Straight from my head:

    1. Secret few days backlinking campaign that will launch you to the top of the Google and leave you there on long term - No method that is made in few days will keep you on the top for long. Consistency is the key for everything.

    2. Meta keywords are very important for SEO and SERP. - Maybe for Antarctica's search engine, not for any major one.

    3. You must submit your site to Google for spiders to crawl it - No you don't.

    4. "I am a SEO exprert" - No you probably are not. Especially if Scrapebox is your only software and you don't know what addons are.

    5. Panda hit my website for spammy link building - No, it's Penguin's job for hit sites with crappy backlinks.

    6. Youtube views improve your rankings in Youtube. - No, you probably use bots for YT views, YT gives rankings to videos on how much time people watch them. Bots don't even load more than a second of video.

    7. H tags are very important - Not so much

    8. SEO is a short term process - Wrong.

    9. Content is the only king. - No. You can discover a cure for HIV or something and write it on your blog. If you won't market your site, nobody will read it.
    11 years ago

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    Tommy Matalino

    Tommy Matalino

    ^Very well said. Those are some obvious myths.
    I laugh on the 4th one. I have seen many people who claim they are "experts" selling these "seo software" online and saying in his landing page that you can thousands of dollars when using his software.
    11 years ago

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    BarryinSiam

    BarryinSiam

    Another myth is that you need links to rank...
    I ranked a site at position 14 for a 6600 monthly search keyword and all I did was some on-page... I actually duplicated the on-page of the top ranking site.
    Obviously it is not sensible to just sit there and wait, but it was interesting experiment anyhow!
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    mqss

    mqss

    [quohome="BarryinSiam, post: 6963, member: 205"]Another myth is that you need links to rank...
    I ranked a site at position 14 for a 6600 monthly search keyword and all I did was some on-page... I actually duplicated the on-page of the top ranking site.
    Obviously it is not sensible to just sit there and wait, but it was interesting experiment anyhow!
    For how long? Every site has some auto generated links to it...
    11 years ago

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    robertman11

    robertman11


    4. "I am a SEO exprert" - No you probably are not. Especially if Scrapebox is your only software and you don't know what addons are.



    Oh so true. So true. Every nub picks up scrape box and then they are instantly an expert.
    11 years ago

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    ralph101

    ralph101

    Oh so true. So true. Every nub picks up scrape box and then they are instantly an expert.

    LOL is that all it takes to be an expert? Well then I guess soon I will be an expert as well, hahaha.
    11 years ago

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    Tommy Matalino

    Tommy Matalino

    Another myth is that you need links to rank...
    I ranked a site at position 14 for a 6600 monthly search keyword and all I did was some on-page... I actually duplicated the on-page of the top ranking site.
    Obviously it is not sensible to just sit there and wait, but it was interesting experiment anyhow!

    How long does it take you to reach that rank? Didn't you link it to any other site even once?
    11 years ago

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    angie828

    angie828

    LOL SEO is not a short process at all. If anyone tells you that they are obviously lying.
    11 years ago

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    Tommy Matalino

    Tommy Matalino

    LOL SEO is not a short process at all. If anyone tells you that they are obviously lying.

    Not really a short process at all. But as you see, I'm asking the guy how long does it take for him to rank that high. And I do know its not that easy.
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    BarryinSiam

    BarryinSiam

    [quohome="BarryinSiam, post: 6963, member: 205"]Another myth is that you need links to rank...
    I ranked a site at position 14 for a 6600 monthly search keyword and all I did was some on-page... I actually duplicated the on-page of the top ranking site.
    Obviously it is not sensible to just sit there and wait, but it was interesting experiment anyhow!

    For how long? Every site has some auto generated links to it...
    It really wasn't up for very long...maybe a couple of weeks. Although links will appear from elsewhere, it was quite interesting to see that I didn't have to actually build links myself.
    11 years ago

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    BarryinSiam

    BarryinSiam

    How long does it take you to reach that rank? Didn't you link it to any other site even once?

    No not once. This was just a stroke of luck really.
    11 years ago

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    mattchauhan

    mattchauhan

    Hey check out these links fro seo myths:
    searchengineland.com/top-ten-organic-seo-myths-12052
    offers.hubspot.com/17-seo-myths-leave-behind-in-2013
    blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33926/7-Common-SEO-Myths-to-Throw-Out-the-Window-Immediately.aspx
    11 years ago

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    twilight

    twilight

    I think that to rank high it would be different for everyone, right? Depends on what you all do for SEO, correct?
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    Tommy Matalino

    Tommy Matalino

    Can an SEO (person) succeed without using any SEO software?
    11 years ago

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    Beverly

    Beverly

    Another myth is that you need links to rank...
    I ranked a site at position 14 for a 6600 monthly search keyword and all I did was some on-page... I actually duplicated the on-page of the top ranking site.
    Obviously it is not sensible to just sit there and wait, but it was interesting experiment anyhow!



    And, you didn't do any manual backlinking? That's really cool as most people say that's mandatory.

    Do you know if anyone else linked to the pages of your site voluntarily or did the site literally have zero backlinks?
    11 years ago

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    MikeQ

    MikeQ

    Now websites are being ranked based on the content so you should think of this first.. links also work but they don't work like it was working before, now you have to build more natural links for better result.
    11 years ago

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    Tommy Matalino

    Tommy Matalino


    Do you know if anyone else linked to the pages of your site voluntarily or did the site literally have zero backlinks?

    It's kinda weird for a site to rank without zero backlinks. Content and backlinks do work hand-in-hand.
    It's possible that there's a site that linked to his site that helped him rank.

    @BarryinSiam
    Do you get refferal traffic from other websites?
    11 years ago

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    Hunter

    Hunter

    Another common myth is how you need to pay to learn SEO. You can easily learn good SEO techniques from an SEO forum or even Google's own webmaster blog where they share proper SEO techniques.
    11 years ago

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    LizAnne

    LizAnne

    Another common myth is how you need to pay to learn SEO. You can easily learn good SEO techniques from an SEO forum or even Google's own webmaster blog where they share proper SEO techniques.



    There are some decent SEO ebooks available online for sale. But just as many for free, too. Just read SEO blogs first and you'll learn almost everything you need to know about SEO without paying.
    11 years ago

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    VanessaMeacham

    VanessaMeacham

    I think that to rank high it would be different for everyone, right? Depends on what you all do for SEO, correct?

    yes, strategies are always different but it's very difficult task to get high rank.
    11 years ago

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    ForumPoster

    ForumPoster

    SEO is very competitive if you want to do SEO then you should give time in researching low competitive keywords first.
    11 years ago

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    Beverly

    Beverly

    SEO is very competitive if you want to do SEO then you should give time in researching low competitive keywords first.


    That's where you start, with low competition keywords and over time (with lots of work), it's possible to dominate even the more popular, intensely competitive keywords
    11 years ago

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    Corzhens

    Corzhens

    The only myth that is on the tip of my tongue right now is one that I had read in a discussion that the SEO work you do today will take effect within 24 hours. I don’t know how that will happen when all I have been reading is that SEO is not an exact science since the algorithm of search engines are changing all the time which means the effect cannot be expected on a particular time which means it can be tomorrow or next week or even next month.
    6 years ago

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