Came across this article at DailySEOblog.com by Mani Karthik, it is one good list put together in terms of what is true and what is not in the SEO world.

People have their own theories on what works and what doesn’t. While some things are never revealed officially by search giants, SEOs figureout by practice. This is one such list you should have a look before you start optimizing your website.  I don’t have second opinions on any of the points listed by Mani.

Quoting a few points from Mani’s list of 25:

3. Changing the crawl rate settings in Webmasters tools console will change the Google crawl rate once and for all.
Apparently not. Google will also check your posting/publishing frequency and set an appropriate crawling frequency based on it, despite your manual setting.
10. A flash page means bad SEO.
Not at all. Using flash will definitely give you less options for SEO compared to a content rich page, but that doesn’t mean bad SEO. You can focus on other SEO factors and get equally good if not better results.
11. Adding a WordPress blog will automatically fix your site’s SEO.
WordPress is a great tool. But just adding one to your site/replacing with it will not give you any edge. You have to use it wisely to get the results.
14. Sitelinks appear only for websites who have high PR.
Sitelinks are auto generated for websites with high traffic. There is nothing you can do control them except to block some of the links from appearing using WebMaster tools
22. SEO is a one month process. Do it and get it done !
SEO is not a quick fix. It requires regular check ups and updates. Nothing can be achieved in short term.

Read the full article here: Top 25 commonly believed SEO myths.

Finished settingup a new blog which will help the wordpress blog users with different kind of resources for optimizing wordpress blogs for best search engine rankings and more visibility in the SERPs.

Still have lot of things to do with the blog design and presentation but for now its ready.
this is the site: seo for wordpress
Will be posting some great wordpress seo tips soon.

Introducing SeoWar.com, a fresh SEO Commmunity Forums with many Expirienced SEOs is now open to webmasters, site owners and SEOs for discussions on SEO Techniques. I am sure the knowledge range what the Search Engine Optimization Experts and Internet Marketing Professionals here at SeoWar.com have is very broad.

Join us as we discuss SEO Techniques and exchange information and learn to be better SEOs and webmasters and gain better search engine rankings.

Here is the link again: SeoWar – Search Engine Optimization Forums

SEOmoz, a Search Engine Optimization and Marketing company based in Seattle released a 9-page document for SEO beginners today.

SEOmoz is also a community or SEO Professionals from all over the world and is a great place to be.

With people like Rand Fishkin, EGOL, Sorvoja, Wit,.. and many from the SEOchat, SEOmoz is a great place to be for sharing and learning among the SEOs community.

To download the SEO document, visit Beginner’s Guide to SEO

“Google has started to open up it’s Analytics service once again. As of right now, there are 236,780 accounts — up 2055 from when they stopped accepting sign-ups. I think they are probably sending out invitations to the people who put their name on the list.”

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TechCrunch » Google Analytics Swings at Measure Map

Its almost 24hrs now and i am still waiting to see the stats. anybody got a report working?