{"id":18,"date":"2006-12-22T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=18"},"modified":"2012-03-04T19:11:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T23:11:02","slug":"organic-optimization-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2006\/12\/22\/organic-optimization-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic Optimization Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard them all, trust me, but this is a new one that I wanted to run by you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Google will give your website a higher organic placement if you have video on your website!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm, of that I am not sure. I have not seen this repeated in any forums or dissected on the Web as most new strategies are. I think video is cool, and we&#8217;re doing a lot of it for websites. I think that it adds a level of interactivity that allows you to connect directly and immediately with your customers, but I don&#8217;t think that it is an organic search optimization tool.<\/p>\n<p>So would I say don&#8217;t do video? No, I think video can be great, but do it because it adds to your website not to get organic placement. I do not see Google giving preferential treatment in the Google SERPs just because you have a video.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think by clicking comments and leaving a note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard them all, trust me, but this is a new one that I wanted to run by you. &#8220;Google will give your website a higher organic placement if you have video on your website!&#8221; Hmm, of that I am not sure. I have not seen this repeated in any forums or dissected on the Web as most new strategies are. I think video is cool, and we&#8217;re doing a lot of it for websites. I think that it adds a level of interactivity that allows you to connect directly and immediately with your customers, but I don&#8217;t think that it is an organic search optimization tool. So would I say don&#8217;t do video? No, I think video can be great, but do it because it adds to your website not to get organic placement. I do not see Google giving preferential treatment in the Google SERPs just because you have a video. Let me know what you think by clicking comments and leaving a note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-trends","category-search-engine-optimization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2693,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}