Few SEO Myths I am Researching

Jan 11, 2010 by

I am always testing new link building methods to see what works and what does not work. I never ever get my information from forums, blog, word of mouth, or anything else like that. I learn from doing, not by reading, and because of that I am always testing out SEO myths myself. Below are a few myths that I am currently testing.

1. Google not only looks at your domains whois info (and past history, etc), but Google also looks at other domains that are owned by you to see how trust worthy you/your domains are.

I kinda of found this myth myself. In case you did not know, back in 2008 Google banned all of my websites that were on the same IP because I was selling text links (they even banned the websites that were not selling text links but were on the same IP). That was a huge pain in the ass so I broke my websites up and made them harder to find (however I know that if google wanted to find them… google can find them haha). Because of this reason I break my domains down into different whois names, either personal names or company names.

Now because I break my domains down like that, I have found out that google DOES track ALL of your websites (no matter the niche). I am not sure exactly how they track your websites however, it is either by the name on your whois, or the IP on your websites, or a combination of both, or maybe even something completely different… all I know is what Google knows a lot about you and ALL of your websites you have online.

So how do I know this for sure? Well I use fake names for my godaddy info when registering a new domain, I have at least 25 different godaddy accounts with all different whois info. Lately I have become lazy and I have started to register other domains using the existing godaddy accounts, instead of creating a whole new godaddy account. Well I have found out that it is a lot easier to rank websites when you have other existing websites already ranked that are using the godaddy account. So how could that be….. because Google looks at your other websites info to see how trustworthy you are.

Now this is just a myth, but I am researching it so see if it is true, and if it is true… how can I use it to my advantage? But if you disagree with me then please leave a comment because I am definably interested in what you have to say.

2. Subdomains

I used to love sub domains because Google treats them like they are there own domain. So I used to use sub domains for smaller niches and ranked each sub domain for the search term. Now google did something to make them harder to rank for, ever since July my sub domains have been slipping in the SERPs even though my link building plans have been the same. I am currently switching my sites over to a better link structure way, but I would like to know what google now does to sub domains? Does anyone have any ideas on what google is doing with sub domains in there index?

SEO Tip:

Here is a SEO tip for newbies… Google loves websites that have been around for a long time. So if you want to rank a website for a hard term then the best way is to buy an existing domain from 10+ years ago and build a site using that domain instead of a new one. Google loves old trustworthy domains!

I rather do SEO work for a website with 100 backlinks from 1998 then a website with 5k backlinks that is 8 months old… any day of the week.

But anyways, leave a comment if you have something to say… whether its good or bad I want to hear it