Some myths about Search Engine Optimization

We come across several myths and misleading statements from around world about search engine optimization. Some from those offering seo services or may be on blogs or forums who just post some articles or come out with vague statements. Of all these widespread 20 plus misconceptions, seo professionals have streamlined these to 7 top SEO myths. Some seo packages are available in the market claiming shortcuts to natural seo or in other words organic seo. It is always safe to stay away from those so called affordable seo companies who make exaggerated claims and promises high search engine rankings.

Believe us, there are no shortcuts or free rides to top the search engines.

Our profound research in seo technology environment reveals that, only professional seo services like ours can help you attain higher search engine ranking.   Though widely, people say that it is all about use of keywords with balanced weight age, seo is actually not just that. If it would be that easy, any person or company that owns a website could probably optimize it themselves and all professional SEO firms would be out of frame.

Let us start first with the seven myths that overshadow the industry and later get to know what other misconceptions existing about search engine optimization. Some are almost as old as the Internet itself. Yet, we strongly disagree any of the following seven techniques. We have had so many prominent corporate firms approaching us for being banned by major search engines. Our experts had to do an in depth post-mortem of these websites to find out the actual problem so that we could take over. Thanks to our experts, they found out that these websites were penalized or banned because their previous service provider had executed some forbidden techniques which the search engines list as an unnatural seo practice.

Following are the 7 top SEO myths in the industry.

* Meta tags can do everything    * Multiple domain names    * Doorway and gateway pages    * Resubmitting every week or every month    * Web optimization experts are too expensive    * We can optimize our site ourselves in house    * Search engines are not as good as other media

The above are the seven most common, but the list does not stop here. Budding myths drive the industry mad year after year. Few of these are spread partially in reality, while others did spread because at times it is often hard to diagnose what meticulous SEO action might have paved way for the search engine reaction.

Like for instance, you might have made a change to something on your webpage and a couple of days later notice that the page’s ranking in Google for a particular keyword phrase has changed. It is quiet natural; you assume that this recent page change is what has caused the change in ranking. Not necessary, we say it from our experience. There might be other reasons as well why the ranking may have changed, in majority of such instances we have discovered that the recent action had nothing to do with this.

One of the most common things new SEOs do is that they mix up cause and effect and thus myths are spread, as blogs, articles or forum and it just keeps on spreading.

A few other SEO myths .

* Google site map is required.* Frequent website updates are necessary.* PPC ads/ Google ad words will promote or bring down page ranking.* Site will be banned if Google’s guidelines are ignored.* Buying links can be troublesome. * It is mandatory to use H1 tags. * Copy should maintain a word count of 250 word.* Long tail keywords are search engine friendly.

In order to achieve the desired page ranking it is highly recommended that you deal with a reputable SEO firm that has the longevity, the accurate tools and high end seo skills to execute high quality professional work on your website. Internet has turned out to be highly powerful marketing, so it is not wise to put your business in stake. Major search engines are only concerned with two things: quality and relevancy in 5 of their search results, therefore its important to make efforts pointing these facts. Search Engines love to deliver the most refined search results and only a professional seo company can help you get there.

Play safe, execute natural search engine optimization techniques and the search engines will reward your efforts.

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4 Responses to “Myths Breeding About Search Engine Optimization”

  • Well, organic SEO is the way to do it because you won’t get banned by major search engine.’-’

  • Tuyet Peden says:

    What really should I do to get my website towards the top of google do I need to hire an seo firm or can I do it myself thanks for the help

  • Poppy Scott says:

    Organic SEO is always the best as Google likes you to optimize your page in an organic way.*:.

  • admin says:

    You can do most of it yourself. Save your money. If you are using Wordpress, if you are not, you should, then
    there are a few plugins I would highly recommend.
    Here they are:
    All in one SEO pack
    Wassup Stastistics
    WP Database Backup
    Twitter Tools
    SEOpressor
    Install these in the plugins folder of your website. Note SEOpressor you must purchase
    but will help you optimize your post’s

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