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Are spiders ignoring my site because of <insert mythical SEO practice>?

Last Updated: Jan 19, 2011 02:15PM EST

Your site, as generated by Squarespace, already incorporates all well known methods for allowing your site to be read easily by search spiders. Your site is presented to spiders using clear, easy to read XHTML that rivals any hand-crafted code you could produce. Items like META tags have not been relevant for search engine rankings for over 5 years. Why is this? Because they provide no additional information for a search spider that it didn't already know. Search spiders will index your site based on its actual content (not "author defined" content) and inbound links (primarily inbound links). Your time spent following lore related to search engine tricks would be better spent focusing on great content -- as that's exactly what the search engines would love to give you a higher ranking for.

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