SEO AdviceGoogle’s white lie
Unlike Steven Colbert who is well known for his truthiness, I just spotted a small Google fib. I was just playing around with Google Sitemaps and noticed a link saying “How can I improve my site’s ranking?”. I’ll bite.
On the resulting page contains the line “We don’t manually assign keywords to sites, nor do we manipulate the ranking of any site in our search results.” That is interesting because I would call removing a site from its search results a pretty good example of manipulating its ranking (such as what happened with webposition.com and many other documented instances).
Hopefully this site doesn’t not not get “manipulated” for its cheekiness. More on Google Sitemaps later.
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