 The Worst Article In History, I can't believe this is published |
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 Apr 16 2004, 06:12 PM
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 High Rankings Advisor  Group: Admin Posts: 29,199 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 09:52 AM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2  |
File Name & Domain Name Methodologies - Their Role And Importance In Top Search Engine Rankings
http://www.webpronews.com/ebusiness/seo/wp...neRankings.html Everything in this article is pretty much wrong. What is wrong with WebProNews that they would publish this garbage? Jill |
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Apr 16 2004, 06:23 PM
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 Work is Fun  Group: Moderator Posts: 4,642 Joined: 31-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 10:52 AM From: Neath, South Wales, UK Member No.: 110 |
Jill, can't we start a monthly howrong award, you know for the most incorrect article or post of the month.
80% of the top 10 results have keyword rich domains so this proves it works. (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/omg.gif) that is so lame, it is like looking at a pond and saying, the pond is flat> the pond is water> water is flat (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) At least there is hope for me and my article 'cabbage on the monitor boosts Google positions. It is true, & I can prove it. I have a cabbage plant that I take into the office, and place it on top of my monitor while I work, while there I optimise, this boosts client positions, so by using the logic in the article cabbage plant on monitor> site optimised> better rankings or cabbage on monitor> better rankings. Time for my bed I think, It has been a tough week, and tomorrow we go look at the money pit and see what work they have not done on it. (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/yuk.gif) |
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Apr 16 2004, 11:50 PM
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 Peanut Butter Lover  Group: Active Members Posts: 502 Joined: 6-August 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 10:52 AM Member No.: 319 |
I kinda had the bad article idea after I read the stuff here
www.seobook.com/archives/000180.shtml I talked with Greg Jarboe at the NY SES and he said that he used to be an editor...the name of the award should be Back Page SEO News or something like that... |
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Apr 17 2004, 12:02 AM
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High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,199 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 09:52 AM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
Forget the bad article of the year...
What about THIS article? No comments? This is the type of article that pains the whole industry. Anyone can post anything anywhere, even if they know nothing. And places like that pick it up and run it. Doesn't matter if you just learned SEO yesterday, or 3 months ago or whatever. Everything said in that article is wrong. Not just one thing. Everything. Even says not to use .php and .asp! Only .html! (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/ranting.gif) |
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Apr 17 2004, 12:11 AM
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 HR 10 Group: Moderator Posts: 7,489 Joined: 24-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 09:52 AM From: Somerville, MA Member No.: 22 |
It really is an astonishingly bad article. Hyphens and underscores are the same? Nope. Only html pages are easy to spider? Uh-uh. Long, keyword rich domain names are great? Sorry. The whole thing is a parade of misinformation.
But there is good news in there: the domain name they recommend as being perfect for search engines, www.search-engine-optimization-ranking-placement-services.com, appears to be available (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/lol.gif) |
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Apr 17 2004, 12:19 AM
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Peanut Butter Lover Group: Active Members Posts: 502 Joined: 6-August 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 10:52 AM Member No.: 319 |
I know I write better articles than that one, I just usually am too lazy to get them syndicated...perhaps I can use that article as a small piece of motivation (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Apr 17 2004, 12:32 AM
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HR 10 Group: Moderator Posts: 7,489 Joined: 24-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 09:52 AM From: Somerville, MA Member No.: 22 |
I never write articles, because it always seems to me that apart from original research (which I don't really do) it's all pretty much been said. Now I see that you can just make it all up, without having to worry about accuracy. That really opens things up for original subject-matter.
I think I'll do an article about how Yahoo is going to beat Google because they've got technology stolen from a colony of Venusians hiding out in the Bermuda Triangle. |
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Apr 17 2004, 02:16 AM
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 HR 4 Group: Active Members Posts: 129 Joined: 2-January 04 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 10:52 AM From: Rimouski, Canada (Quebec) Member No.: 1,807 |
Ha Qwerty! I recognize that. It seems so logical that what you know someone else knows as well. But guess again....
The .php etc. thing I encounter a lot. Not just outdated articles but recent stuff. I guess it is like other pro's: a doctor stops reading up some day as well... Ruud |
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Apr 17 2004, 03:45 AM
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 33 & Retired ... What to do, What to do? Group: Active Members Posts: 653 Joined: 13-October 03 User's local time: Feb 10 2010, 12:52 AM From: Nth Qld - Australia Member No.: 1,052 |
QUOTE Also, try keeping your optimized pages in html/htm format and NOT .php. .asp or other formats. Because, search engine spiders find it easier to index a static page (in html/htm format) than a dynamic page (in .php or .asp format). This is the exact (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/poo.gif) that I have customers coming to me saying; hold out on SEO as they are changing their site to static instead of dynamic. Even though I have no idea how they would manage particular sites in static. What a nightmare. What a (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/clown2.gif) who wrote it and another one who released it. |
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Apr 17 2004, 10:08 AM
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High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,199 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 09:52 AM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
And WPN has a huge audience. This just is so disheartening to think of all the people that might read that article and think that any of it is true.
I was looking for a place on their forum to discuss it. I may have to go in there and start a thread. I am truly sickened by it. It's just worse than bad. It's completely false, misleading, stupid, dumb, wrong, and the worst article I've ever read regarding SEO. Jill |
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Apr 17 2004, 10:17 AM
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 HR 7 Group: Active Members Posts: 2,333 Joined: 13-August 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 07:52 AM From: Phoenix, AZ Member No.: 501 |
You look at the author info and see "Prabuddha holds a Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.) in Construction Engineering". The guy should go back to the construction industry IMO. (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/lol.gif)
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Apr 17 2004, 11:32 AM
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High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,199 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 09:52 AM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
I've written to Garrett to express my utter displeasure with that article. I've offered to write a rebuttal so that at least his readers will get the true facts.
Hate to have to write a new article, but I feel it's important. The thought of so many people reading that article and believing it is just sickening. |
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Apr 17 2004, 11:51 AM
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High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,199 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 09:52 AM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
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Apr 17 2004, 12:34 PM
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 AKA Arizona Web, SearchStudent, and Chris Hooley Group: Active Members Posts: 280 Joined: 3-September 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 10:52 AM From: Phoenix Arizona Member No.: 721 |
personally, I found the article enlightening and refreshing. I was really getting sick of almost everybody in the business telling me the same things. It's about time somebody who had no idea how to optimize a web site came out with an article to completely contradict everybody else who knows the biz, and to make my clients yell at me for using server side programming.
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Apr 17 2004, 12:37 PM
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High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,199 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 09:52 AM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
I take it your being sarcastic MCP? (Sarcasm is difficult in forums.)
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