10 Myths about Google

1)Google will penalize you for “wrong” incoming links

FALSE

I have selected this as a first myth because I keep seeing it all over internet marketing forums and websites. Google will not penalize you and your site if you have low quality incoming links or links from link farms, they will simply ignore those links because for Google they don’t carry any weight. So you can be sure that your site is safe if someone tries to Google Bomb you…
2)Google will penalize you for “wrong” outgoing links?

TRUE and FALSE

Big search engine like Google and Yahoo don’t like to be tricked so they found a way to discover what we today call a link farm. So be careful who you link to and how many outgoing links per page you have, don’t let your website become a link farm because then you will get penalized. You will not however, get penalized if you have 10 outgoing links to your favorite forums like I do
3)Google will penalize you for cloaking?

TRUE

Yet again, search engines don’t like to be tricked so they try to discover cloaking scripts. Cheap scripts will surely be discovered one time or another and for more expensive ones… well let’s say that webmasters that don’t like you could report you to Google and you could lose your business

4)Google hates flash?

TRUE

It’s not true one hundred percent because I’m sure that people from Google would like that their spiders could read flash pages but at this time they just can’t so try to avoid flash pages. If you are using flash try to put your content and you menu out of it.

5)Google can’t index dynamic sites?

FALSE

For a long time now Google has the ability to index dynamic site whether they are PHP or ASP. But don’t let your urls contain more than two (I would say more then one) database query because it will cause problems for spiders.

6)I can click on my own Adsense ads?

FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE

Please, do not, under any circumstances click on your Adsense ads. Clicking on your own ads will get your domain banned from the Adsense program and it will get your account closed so please don’t do it! If you click on your ad then send an email to Google Adsense support team and they will try to help you.

7)I can put images next to ads?

FALSE

Just recently Google has announced on their official Adsense blog that they do not approve images close to ads. You can read more about it in my Images next to ads article.

8)You can buy number one position on Google?

FALSE

You can’t buy your way in. No matter what your friends tell you there isn’t a way to get to number one unless you work hard on you site. If you want your site to be appear fast on Google then try Adwords program.

9)Google will make me rich?

TRUE and FALSE

Not everyone gets rich using Adsense. Some of us are good at it and some aren’t.

Like in every other thing in life you have to work hard to succeed so if you want to get rich using Adsense start working right now and stop dreaming.

10)Google will rule the world?

I will leave this one open since I’m not sure about it. They certainly rule search engine world the last couple of years, will it remain the same is yet to be seen. I hope that my TV won’t have Google logo on it for at least 5 years J

This is it; I hope that you have enjoyed reading this article as I did writing it.

Thank you for your time.

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