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Besides Software I Actually Know Very Little About SEO
By Howard Young | May 6, 2008
Unlike me, Amit the Super Affiliate, probably should stick to PPC traffic cause he can’t pass a simple SEO Cartoon Quiz. Not that I’m a professed SEO expert, I’ve found that if you simply “follow the SEO recipe“, your pages will rank higher in the SERPS. After all, W3.org is the governing organization which all search engines follow.
Of course there are lots of off page factors and topology considerations that Google, MSN and Yahoo have to analyze the macro view of the web. Each company has their own algorithms to present this view for given search terms.
All we know is that Google’s publication of its algorithm, via patent disclosure, indicates that links to your content are a contributing and weighted factor in determining content ranking. Other search engines have not disclosed their IP, so an educated guess would be that external links are a determining factor.
Even though you follow the SEO recipe, there are supply and demand factors where you are providing the supply side of the equation where Google and the other search engines are fulfilling the demand for their customers. There is enough evidence that suggests Google, with it’s massive parallel operations, provides new information near real-time where other search engines may take days.
Thus, with the proper SEO recipe, it is theoretical to achieve short and long-term results for certain terms that you are trying to market. But if you want to keep it simple, just become a PPC guy like Amit.
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