{"id":239,"date":"2011-09-16T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T08:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pingler.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2014-08-18T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T15:22:28","slug":"outdated-theories-about-search-engine-optimisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pingler.com\/blog\/outdated-theories-about-search-engine-optimisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdated Theories about Search Engine Optimisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pingler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Jeeves.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5520\" src=\"https:\/\/pingler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3222901_s-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Outdated\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pingler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3222901_s-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pingler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3222901_s.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Just about everybody involved to any degree with the internet knows that SEO is crucial if you want to get a lot of relevant traffic to your site. \u00a0Whether you are selling or promoting something, or just want people to read your blog, you can never underestimate the value of a good Google ranking for relevant keywords.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, search engines have been in common use since the 1990s. \u00a0Back then, there was a lot of choice, and they all worked differently. \u00a0SEO was born, with a set of rules of thumb that those interested in generating traffic would use, but with so many players in the market a definitive understanding of what was best to get your site found was hard to come by.<\/p>\n<p>These days, things are very different. \u00a0With Web 2.0, searches need to take in not only static pages but user generated content, like the millions of tweets and blog posts and comments generated every minute. \u00a0Search engines work very differently, and so do their users. \u00a0When was the last time you thought about \u201casking Jeeves\u201d? \u00a0I have checked (out of pure nostalgia) and he is still there, but who on Earth is asking him stuff in 2011? \u00a0With the market dominated by Google to the point where \u201cto Google\u201d is a widely accepted verb (which may or may not be valid in Scrabble), you know what people are using, and so all you have to do, at a basic level, is optimise for Google.<\/p>\n<p>Google got its effective monopoly by being the best at what it does, so it should come as no surprise that it doesn\u2019t rank its pages according to theories from 1998. \u00a0However, you do still find people who think a lot of the old rules still apply. \u00a0Here are a few SEO ideas that you still hear, but which in reality stopped working at around the time the Spice Girls split up:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meta Tags<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Probably the most common misconception is that meta tags (descriptive tags containing keywords which are not displayed on the page) are important, or even used by search engines. \u00a0They are not. \u00a0Simply because they were abused to the point where they became meaningless. \u00a0If you turn on the TV and there isn\u2019t a brand new episode of Friends on, then it isn\u2019t 1999 you don\u2019t need meta tags for SEO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Submissions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back in the days when Leonardo DiCaprio was drowning in the sea rather than messing with people\u2019s dreams, you had to submit your site to search engines so they would know to crawl it. \u00a0Do you really think that when you Google something and a bunch of tweets and blog posts come back that someone has painstakingly submitted all of that stuff to Google? \u00a0No. \u00a0You do need to enable your site to be seen by search engines, but that is all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEO is Static<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the 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