In my last post I wrote about SEO myths and misconceptions. And, here are a few SEO facts that you need to know.
1. Normal results may vary from personalized results
2. Results may vary when you change Google’s SafeSearch filtering
3. You cannot judge the popularity of a long tail keywords
4. You need not optimize for long tail keywords, they would rank by themselves
5. Search engine algorithm cannot be perfectly predicted
6. Sitemap is necessary if your site is not crawler-friendly
7. Meta descriptions are used as a reference for a page by Google in SERP, but they have less impact on search engine optimization.
8. If you don’t have a Meta description, then Google may sometimes display your site information from DMOZ, if you are listed there or it would display a relevant content from your webpage.
9. Search engine bots cannot read images easily
10. Low page rank sites may outrank high page rank sites
11. Sites that appeal to users, also appeal to search engines
12. Bots cannot reach a URL if it has got too many parameters
13. Google advises to use “Nofollow” attribute for the paid links
14. Google can index 18 types of files (PDF, Postscript, .atom, .rss, .dwf, etc)
15. No SEO company knows search engine optimization fully
16. If any site steals your content, then you may file a Google’s DMCA request to claim ownership.
17. Sending automated queries to Google to check a site’s ranking is against Google’s terms of service.
18. Parked domain names won’t typically appear in search results.
19. Google can now crawl and index content that is embedded in flash, but there is no guarantee.
20. Google doesn’t accept money to crawl a website more often
21. Google considers over 200 factors while displaying results
22. Google has different data centers to retrieve results
23. Nofollow tag is applicable only for Google and not for other search engines
24. Your competitor cannot harm your search engine ranking
25. Google encourages you to write original content
Feel free to add more.
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26.Never take search engine as your only way to promote,because some day you may be discarded.
27. Search engine algorithms change hundreds of times each year. The only insurance policy is a natural site structure and good content.
There's an interesting point to the question, since no one has ever optimized a search engine. We do optimize web sites to be relevant, in order to meet the needs of searchers.
Fathom is there a sound if there's one hand clapping in the middle of the desert with no one close enough to hear it ? If there are clouds, is the whole sky still blue or just the part that's unobscured from view by the clouds.
Meta descriptions are used as a reference for a page by Google in SERP, but they have less impact on search engine optimization.
28. Relying on search exclusively is like trying to drive sales by waiting for the phone to ring. You MUST use web marketing to actively promote your products...just make sure the landing page matches well with the keyword in your campaigns.
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