A happy Friday to all.
There is an absolute plethora of misinformation out there about SEO, so as my contribution to
the community, I’m going to dispell a few SEO myths.
There is no such thing as a sandbox. Yes, that is correct, there is no Google sandbox.
If your brand spanking new page is not immediately indexed, it’s because you don’t have
enough links, or Google has not updated its index to reflect your site’s inclusion yet.
I’ve had sites that were plastered with ads indexed within 2 hours, and I’ve had sites
white as the driven snow with 50 backlinks from trusted domains take ages to get indexed.
Which brings me to my next point: edu = gov = com = info = net = org = …
The TLD of a domain matters about as much as the color pants you’re wearing when you get a link from it. It’s *trust* that makes a good link, not its TLD.
Pagerank doesn’t matter either. It’s just an arbitrary standard produced by a company who has one and
only one ultimate goal - to make money. The only reason to ever worry about the pagerank of your pages
is so that you can sell links to suck..er…other webmasters who care about such things.
There is no duplicate content penalty! I cannot emphasize this enough. Google itself is just
a giant content scraper. There are millions of blogs and aggregators out there that just copy
other content. As long as you credit the source, you have nothing to worry about if your
content is not original. Just remember who the biggest content theif on the web is, and
that they made 10 billion dollars last year.
That’s all for now. Hope to catch you all later.
-V
If You Want Something Done Right…
