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I’m offering some basic free SEO reviews on my blog, Fused Nation.  More details can be found here.  This would be particularly useful for small businesses who don’t have the budget to take on professional SEO services.

Scott

We’ve just uploaded our SEO glossary.  Although there is still some work to be done on it, we thought it was best to upload the definitions we had already written.

We’re also looking for people to contribute to the glossary - email glossary (at) eflaunt.com if you would like to add an item (you get a link back to your site).

MG

Just wanted to do a quick post on some SEO Myths for our SEO tips section.  A bit of a personal grudge of mine - the SEO industry is full on dis-information, so just wanted to clarify a few things.

• Linking to Google does not help your search engine rankings.
• Writing bad code for your site does not negatively effect your rankings (unless the code makes it unindexable).
• Sites hosted on the same server do not impact each other.  While it can be a factor if you are doing some naughty stuff (like running a network of spam sites), the average webmaster doesn’t need to worry.
• Publishing your address details on every page of your site does not count as duplicate content.
• You do not need to submit your site to search engines at all, let alone on a monthly basis. Search engines find sites by following links from other sites.  Get links to your site and search engines will find it eventually.
• Links from .edu and .gov domains are better.  Semi-true - they aren’t treated any differently by search engines, but naturally have much higher “link popularity” so a link from these sites can count for a little more as a result.

It’s important to remember when reading information on discussion forums (and indeed blogs), to take the information with a pinch of salt.  Not everything that shines is gold!

At eFlaunt, we make every effort to comment on issues with authority - we have enough experience in this industry to be able to sort the facts from the speculation.  However, if you disagree with any comments made here, then please feel free to leave your own comment and let us know.