SEO and human nature

The hot hot topic around the webmaster forums these few days is undoubtedly regarding the Google Page Rank update. For the newcomers to the GOI(Google Optimisation Industry), A Page Rank Update is what we term an export of a page’s Page Rank to the Google Toolbar - This happens once every 3 months or there abouts.

There is a thread on Digitalpoint that I found funny in a twisted sense of humor kinda way. As is the norm with PR updates, a respected DP member posted that they have found pages that seem to have been updated. This was followed by some further evidence submitted by other members on newly found updated pages.

What I found funny was the number of members that downright refused to believe that an update had started because they did not see it on their sites. To be honest, the responses this time was a bit more civilised to previous updates.

Anyways, the point of this post is not to moan about PR updates or even to calrify whether a PR update has started or not, but rather my observation on some webmasters refusal to accept good solid advice because they have not experienced the same. Whilst I appreciate that alot of advice from webmaster forums are from people that could do with advice themselves but when a respected member of the community gives you advice, its wise to take note.

This is the reason I feel of why there are so many SEO myths around our industry. There are so many voices of self acclaimed experts that sometimes, its hard to pick out the facts from the opinions. If someone asked me to give them the best SEO tip, I would tell them to read certain SEO blogs and maybe the replies of certain community saints like tedster on Webmaster World.

You can only give opinions based on your knowledge and experience so its inevitable that the competitive SEO industry will be filled with so much smoke. As they say, if you cant stop them .. err .. just ignore them.