Google Myths

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Find some myths online:

"Myth #1: Google Knows All and Sees All
Myth #2: Google Will Not Rank Duplicate Content
Myth #3: You Must Get Links From Related Subject Sites to Rank
Myth #4: To Maintain Good Rankings, You Must Add New Content... And Much More!"

OK, nice to know :rolleyes:
#search engine optimization #google #myths
  • Some of these myths are true to some extent!
  • Can I turn Myth #2 into a question?

    From the info I gathered, if lets say I put up a new domain and copy/paste the content from the original domain to my new domain, the new domain will be ignored by bots and get a static rank. Priority is given to the original domain. Isn't that a penalty?

    Bernard
  • agreed with other posters. # 2 is not a myth.
  • Let's think about #2 logically.

    I posted an article on my blog and waited for it to get indexed.

    After the article had time to soak and Google was well aware of the fact that I was the originating site for "that" article.

    I then syndicated it to EZA. Within a weeks time, the EZA copy outranked my original in organic search results.

    Obviously, it knew that the EZA copy was a duplicate, but it still ranked the block on EZA higher.

    Why? Because at the time, EZA had higher trust rank than my site for that block of text.

    So Google will rank duplicate content if it is on a site that has higher trust rank and Google Webmasters even states this.

    Why do you think the "Article Assassination" technique exists?
  • Myth #5: Google Will "Sandbox" Your Site If Backlinks Are Built Too Quickly
    Myth #6: Google Only Pay Attention To DOFOLLOW Backlinks
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    • Agreed. Two of the biggest ones right there.
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    • #7 - Matt Cutts tells the truth in his interviews and Q&A's, he's not just telling the webmasters exactly what Google wants them to think.
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    • I'll prove to you #5 is no myth
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  • Myth #1 Google is not perfect sometimes it may miss on some content and maybe duplicated.
  • Whoa awesome post!

    About duplicate content. I think after the Panda/Farmer update, syndication sites like business insider and huff post have been outranking original news sites.

    Matt Cutts does not lie. He is actually a very honest person IMO. His #1 priority is to make sure that the holes in Google's algorithm is never figured out by evil geniuses. The problem is that there are always holes and that there are always people who jump through those holes. White hat webmasters always complain to Matt that their are people conducting unethical SEO practices in their niche, but there is sometimes very little Google can do about the problem. Sometimes closing a loophole will reduce the quality of search too much for a greater percentage of key phrases. The info he offers is exactly what Google wants webmasters to do. If everyone listened ed, Google would be a perfect search engine... or as close to perfect as possible.

    I hope that made sense.

    Thanks,

    George
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