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SEO FAQ
30 SEO questions you always wanted an answer to - questions 10-20 :
11. How long does it take to get indexed by Google?
Just a few minutes, but really the practical answer is that it doesn’t matter.
12. How to submit my new site to Google/Bing/Yahoo etc.?
You don’t submit sites to search engines these days. You link to them from already indexed sites, you ping them via blog posts and or you submit an XML sitemap.
13. How do I submit to 1000 search engines?
By allowing yourself to get sucked in by a scammer. It’s actually quite easy, and really quite painless because they only fleece you for a small amount and you learn such a valuable lesson.
14. Do I need an XML sitemap?
Most sites do not. Generally, only sites with thousands of pages spread multiple levels deep really need them.
15. Do I need meta tags for SEO?
Meta tags have nothing to do with SEO, unless you need to instruct the search engines not to index or to follow a certain page (which is better done via a robots.txt file). Meta tags are still a good idea (to increase click-through rates, to get listed in some directories, etc.), but they are not a requirement for SEO.
16. Do I need a high PageRank for SEO?
The tighter the competition for your searches, the more important every factor is, including a high PageRank and the size of your site (I added site size for the benefit of visitors from Question 27). Please reread the answer to Question #3. PageRank is one factor, probably a fairly important one, but there are many others that are extremely important, too. (Related post on why PR0 links are sometimes worthwhile)
17. What is linkbait?
It is any content you put on your site in the hopes that some other websites will link to it. Interesting history about this. The proper name for it is “magnetic content”, a name I gave to it before someone more famous than me started calling it link-bait and now I won’t get the movie rights.
18. Can’t my niece who is a graphic designer do the SEO?
Absolutely. Why just last week I asked my brother-in-law, the plumber, to flush out my arteries.
19. Can’t my nephew who is a web developer do the SEO?
Absolutely. Why just last week I asked my brother-in-law, the plumber, to flush out my arteries.
20. Can my son-in-law who is a Perl, Java and C programmer do my SEO?
You really are not getting this, right? SEO is a specialty that requires both planning in advance and judgment calls on the fly. I have seen situations where any of these people have made unfortunate judgment calls that have gotten websites banned from Google or Yahoo because they thought they knew SEO (In fact, they did know SEO, or at least 20% or 30% of it, and a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.).
