You are correct. The mention of ‘improving search engine rankings’ implies that one is ‘optimising’ for the ‘search engine’ in order to improve ranking(s). Even simple things like providing a title in your title tags, or using meta tags, or even writing frequently on your blog or website is considered SEO. Because all these things work at improving your rank.

Adhering to W3C involves work, but doesn’t improve your search engine rank. Read that as fact.

Take it from an expert. Monty (Scott) has absolutely no idea of how to improve search engine rank, despite thinking it is an easy topic to master. Try finding his website in the search engines. You won’t, despite the fact that it now validates.

Enough said.

As for “trying to jump on the bandwagon to get in the good books”, I would not have written anything on iServ until all the comment alterations of opposing viewpoints began. The constant presentation of your view or no view was the straw that shattered my silence. I have though endeavoured to concentrate on specific points, not a personality. I have done this deliberately for the following reasons:
1. Your beef with Brad and Dan is between yourselves.
2. It is an attempt to bring some balance to the argument.

As for this site, my contributions are free of arguments based on personal attacks. With all discussions presented being focussed on specific statements, not a general comment about an individual or personality. All comments are produced as submitted on this site, unless the comment is clearly spam. Hence the comments of Brad, Dan, and yourself (Scott) are shown and respected.

I welcome any further comments.

Seems to me as though your trying to jump on the bandwagon to get in the good books by stretching the truth, hey?

You sure you want to go there Mr. Shadowknight?

Improve search engine rankings.

Which is from Regarding Phatic written on Tuesday, 13th February 2007.

“In a recent blog enty on phatic.org the author claimed that adhering to the W3C standards is good for SEO.”

Once you do that, then I’ll address your concerns.

It also has no personality, so no one would naturally link to it.

Since it has no plans on changing its lack of knowledge or its lack of personality, its site will be wallowing in the mire for quite some time.

It really is just a little internet pest, and the less time spent on little bugs the better. This particular one is beneath you and should be squashed under your shoe.

That happens when websites go from being something even slightly interesting and descend into a daily personal attack on rival site owners.

To an extent that has happened on iServ though at the same time I include sufficient other content which people do find interesting. Monty clearly doesn’t have the capacity to do that and the fact that he re-launched his PR0 site with a tirade of abuse on myself and people of my acquaintance proves that point.

This afternoon Monty claimed to be a landlord. Big deal. Anyone with a rich dad can score a renovator’s dream and with some professional help, turn it into something of value however these people are the ones that fail later in life because they don’t know or understand how to live off meagre earnings.

I am a high wage earner but about ten years ago I wasn’t. So I know how life on both sides of the poverty line works. I prepared myself for the worst and have earned the position I now have. Whilst that hasn’t changed my outlook on life or my ability to interact with normal people, a bit of prosperity, assuming that Monty is telling the truth about having three houses, sees Monty beating his chest and having a good toss over the situation.

The whole thing makes me laugh and more will be said about it tonight on iServ and in finishing I see that Schwoit.com, despite being a fairly new site, has managed to escalate to PR4. This is outstanding and reflects the desire of the owner to champion the cause of intelligent discussion. Well done and I wish this site every success.