{"id":248,"date":"2006-08-03T06:52:43","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T13:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/archives\/248"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:46:05","slug":"seo-mythbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/seo\/seo-mythbuster\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO Mythbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Cutts&#8217;s lightning round today dispelled two popular SEO myths&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. The myth that .gov or .edu links are more valuable for your PR than others. That&#8217;s not the case, and Google has no more weight given to one than the other.<br \/>\n2. The myth that you should no longer use the BOLD tag in your .html becase the W3C prefers the STRONG tag. Both are treated equally, and there&#8217;s no reason to go back through the code of your sites.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Cutts is Google&#8217;s lead engineer for the &#8220;web spam&#8221; team, and has become their public face for  dealing with the webmasters and SEO&#8217;s of the world. His blog is read by over a thousand people daily, and last Friday he opened up his blog as a &#8220;grab bag&#8221; for  questions, and that&#8217;s what he got, posted by over 100 different webmasters.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than type them all up, he has made several videos attempting to get all the questions aswered quickly, and he&#8217;s been putting up a couple each day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/type\/movies\/\">SEO movie category<\/a> where I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll be adding more. 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