It’s 2011. We’re embracing the 3rd decade of public internet access. Since 1991, home use of the internet has been mushrooming. Google has been at the forefront of the use of the internet. If you want to find something on the internet, you use Google. Ok, maybe you use Bing or Yahoo, but same thing really.
Why? Search engines have the whole internet read and indexed, stored and filed, cross referenced. Google has been going since 1994 and in 2001/2 became the biggest search engine in the world (by use and by documents indexed – the then used benchmark). You can read more about the history of Google on my slideshare.
With all of these documents, Google has to look at different ways to present information. It’s slowing moving towards the concept/idea of a Symantic Web but allowing cross-referencing. Google is learning to return results on the way you use results. It’s using Places (Geo-Targeting) and Organic Ranking. It displays results by Blogs, Discussions, Real-time (twitter), Video (including Youtube) and Images. It uses User Ratings and reviews, average prices and other data (Google Snippets).
It’s a vastly different animal from 10 years ago. So why do pre-Google myths still surround us? Some of them are made up and some of them are just scary. Many of them are issued like edicts by self-professed experts. But they’re all debunkable – Google goes to comprehensive lengths to distribute accurate information but we’ve too many soap-box experts willing to shout out rather than sit back and listen.
This is a quick list of my favourite, pet-peeve Internet Myths. I hear them daily. I read about them on Fora (plural for Forums), blogs and in advice given to clients. Sit back – some of them seem like complete fact – but these are all bona fida Internet Urban Legends. If you hear any SEO Guru espousing the virtues of these – run, run away fast!
1. Keywords and Keywords density: Why do 1990′s SEO “tips” still survive into 2011? Because its easy to understand. It’s based, loosely, on a library-style indexing system. Really – Google is going to rank you for “Hotels Dublin” because you have it 101 times on your home page and you competitor fell short at 100? Forget it – Myth Busted: Google doesn’t respect a Keywords Meta-tag!
Snake oil Hint: Keywords are just text.
2. You get penalised for duplicate content: I’ve been lectured on this at length. I keep 4 domains with exact, duplicate content that are all at least 5 years old and none of them are penalised. I don’t need to – Google has a video on it. Duplicate content, that you own, is not necessarily penalised. Cloned, syndicated, plaguarised and scraped content being different. Rolled up content is not penalised content. This is actually quite a complex area but I’ll keep it simple – its how I can tell the cowboys from the real researchers!
Snake Oil Hint: Be careful but be weary when someone pontificates on this one!
3. .COM is global: This is the worst and most damaging myth of all. A .COM, for most parts is a TLD but it’s not necessarily Global….
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SEO Blog
Many Internet businesses will fail in the first year of operation, and at least 50% of them will have failed withing 5 years. Which – if you think about it is not much different to the real world. At least on the surface – how many Internet marketing operations/ businesses or whatever you want to call it go completely unregistered? I would like to bet it is a substantial amount, because it is almost completely un-necessary to register a business like this unless it is making a decent income – in which case, the IRS will make certain to help you register.
So – I draw the conclusion that most (hard to put a definite number on it) internet marketers and firms will fail within 2-5 years. Why such a high failure rate? Simple really – lack of research and poor motivators. If your sole reason for setting up an internet business is to make money online, you will be faced with several challenges. One – it is soul destroying to sit in front of a computer all day and discover that you earned 3 cents an hour because you failed to properly research your market and two, the competition is becoming stiffer every day. Whatever your market, you are probably going to discover that the competition has noticeably increased between researching and launching. This is definitely something I take into consideration beafore advising a client on probable rewards and time frames.
You are not alone on the Internet, and something a competitor does or does not do can have a drastic effect on your business. One way of coping with these issues is to get involved in a business you have a genuine passion for. I think the best internet businesses come from doing this and recommend taking a long hard look at your motivations before starting anything. There are plenty of internet marketing tools available to properly research almost any subject as well.
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Red Wagon Designs
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