Deep Crawls: SEO Myths
There’s a lot of forum chatter about Big Daddy crawling issues.
I’m not going to link to any of the debates, especially one I spotted in a leading SEO forum which, in my humble opinion, contained nothing but utter b**shit. No, I’m not going to mention it.
Heh 
I guess my point is: “be careful what we believe”. If there’s something odd happening, it’s amazing the conclusions some so-called SEO experts jump to, and the speed with which they do it. Before you know it, mere conjecture becomes undisputed fact, and it’s no wonder most people don’t have a clue how to rank in Google any more.
Personally, I believe in testing. And reading research papers (pick out the pieces of data a huge search engine could actually process in a cost-effective manner). And not reading seo forums (much) 
June 6th, 2006 at 7:27 am
I couldn’t agree more Peter, but be careful, you will notice a sharp decline in your blog visitors going against the mainstream of SEO followers.
You must enjoy Bill Slawski and his SEO by The Sea, he digs deep into patents.
June 6th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Agreed. Bill does dig deep – and provides some excellent analysis. I’m glad Bill takes the time to do it – saves me having to!
SEO forums, blogs etc are fine, but people have to be careful who they listen to. A lot of theories are just that – theories – and they don’t become fact simply by virtue of being repeated often.
When you ask people to prove their theories, most tend to go quiet.
June 6th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
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June 8th, 2006 at 12:12 am
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