Useless Advice for Small Businesses on Message Boards
A crusty old fart of webmaster once told me that the truth about search engines and how to get your sites listed in good positions was out there but you won’t find it on search engine message boards - and he was right.
I’ve just seen the similar rule on a message board that supposedly helps people get their websites ranked well. A small business person was looking for advice on how to get his site above the number 4 position for a certain term.
The advice he got was comical:
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do away with tables in the design because search engines hate tables - THEY DON’T
Re-design your page in CSS because surfers will have more satisfaction viewing the page - SURFERS WANT SATISFACTION FROM A COMMERCIAL PAGE??????????
Move your navigation links from the left hand side of the page - AND HAVE YOUR AVERAGE JOE NEVER FIND HIS WAY FURTHER INTO YOUR SITE??????????????????
Yep you can find a lot of helpful advice on designing your business website but you won’t find it on message boards like that one or others like it.
It’s a bit like a small business board I visited once quite a while ago where the resident expert on small business websites was a kid who didn’t have a website … or a clue.
