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SEO
Myths That May Help Your Job Easier
Myth
1. You must submit your site regularly to the search
engines to get top rankings. Search engines find you
just fine by following inbound links and re indexing
a page over and over has never done anything to improve
rankings.
Myth
2. You need to regularly tweak your site to keep up
with the latest algorithm changes. For most sites
this is a waste of time and money. Solid optimization
techniques never go "out of style". In fact, a well
optimized site will usually rank better the following
year than the first without changing anything. Great
titles, age, quality content and relevant inbound
links have always mattered and will continue to count
more heavily as the search engines get better at weeding
out the "junk" sites.
Myth 3. You need to have top 10 rankings for a select
group of phrases to get traffic and sales. Not necessarily.
It really depends on which terms you are shooting
for. Terms that you may feel are "critical" may not
be the one's your customers are using. Nor the ones
that convert the best. Using tools such as WordTracker
it's quite easy to see if your term is in common usage
or you're chasing after an industry niche term that
only a handful of "insiders" will use. If you have
an emerging businesses, a new technology, or occupy
a niche market, it may be misguided to emphasize high
rankings for your service or product. After all, most
people don't even know it exists yet! In these cases
you may want to heavily target "my problem" key phrases
to lead potential customers to your "solution"( example;
"buy rubber life raft" or "how to survive an boat
capsize" are probably better terms for attracting
customers than "PolyCorp Floatation Device").
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