Summary (for people who don’t have time to read blogs all day. We should be building stuff instead of bitching about Google, yeah?): If you depend on Google to survive, your site sucks. If your site gets the same level of traffic from Google a day but your daily visits isn’t rising, your site sucks. For big companies, SEO is just an afterthought. Universalstudios.com has a few SEO flaws, but it doesn’t matter.
Big Companies Are Already Highly Visible

Universal Studios, MGM, McDonalds, IBM, Apple … these companies existed long before the birth of search engines. These companies have access to mass media (TV news, commercials, billboards, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies). They branded their names permanently into our collective psyche. Even if Google didn’t exist, you know you can find McDonalds’ official website by typing mcdonalds.com into your browser.
Google is Just a Middle Man

When do you need Google? You need Google when you’re looking for something but don’t know where to find it. But as time goes on, you figure out where to find whatever you’re looking for, so that Google becomes a middle man you no longer need. If you were looking for Ali Larter’s pics, for example, you might first surf Google Images. If you were looking for a list of movies she starred in, you go to imdb. If you wanted to know the names of Asia Carrera’s kids or if she’s still having financial problems, you either go to her official website or go to Wikipedia. If you wanted to buy a DVI adapter or a new PSU, you go to newegg. If you wanted to download MTV videos on YouTube that might disappear by tomorrow. you visit keepvid. If you felt like stalking Vanessa Fox, you’d go to twitter (Vanessa, don’t worry. I’m too busy to stalk anyone :D).
See? If you know where to find what you’re looking for, you don’t really need Google, do you? (unless you’re thinking of sites like Webmasterword with lousy search features)
For Big Brand Names, SEO is An Afterthought

For companies like Universal Studios, SEO is almost an afterthought. The bulk of their “marketing” that’s been going on for decades penetrates households that don’t even own a computer or don’t have enough money to pay for internet access.
If you already got high visibility, all you really need to do then is build a razzle-dazzle 59 points out of 60 website that turns your visitors into marketers.
Bulk of Your Traffic Should Be Bookmark/Type-In

Have you ever lost thousands of daily uniques because your Google ranking suddenly tanked?
You have? Ok. But what happened to 30,000 people that visited your site last week?
If your site’s stickier than cyanoacrylate, 100 daily uniques from Google would pile up into 1,000 visitors/day after 10 days. Do you see that happening with your site? If your site’s traffic isn’t rising, you need to work on content, not SEO. Sure, adding more content targeting more phrases might increase number of incoming daily hits, but what good does a million pennies in your pocket do you if you have a gaping hole in your pocket?
In investing, you look for high interest rates that compound year after year after year. Investing $4K a year in a Roth IRA at 8%, for example, will turn you into a millionare in 30 years all thanks to compounding interest.
Most people know this, yet they often don’t put much effort into building a website with compounding traffic.
Universal Studios Can’t Care Less About SEO

Universal Studios obviously hasn’t bothered to SEO their official website, universalstudios.com:

• 100% Flash pages like this makes some SEOs frown. But see, it’s a dichotomy: on the one hand, people say SEO is 99.9% about links. They also say all Flash and no text is bad SEO. Makes you wonder if people spreading these ideas are capable of logical thinking.
• Home page redirects to index.php. That’s not necessarily bad if it was a 301 redirect. But it’s a 302.
• The second site: search result triggers a 404.
• According to the home page META keywords, the home page wants to rank for matt damon,ppv, vod, on demand, pay-per-view, jerry springer. Despite the TBPR 7, universalstudios.com ranks for none of those words because the IBL anchor texts are untargeted. According to SEO Digger, the home page does rank for over 637 terms, so just because it doesn’t get traffic for the keywords it wants doesn’t mean its not getting traffic.

It doesn’t matter though. If Google vanished tomorrow, people will still visit universalstudios.com. What will happen to your site if Google vanished tomorrow?


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You have given options to search for parameters w/o the help of search engines.ok i do agree to a certain extent but tell me if i want to promote my website how am i going to do it.Google is the mother of all search engines and it has access to every other event occurring in mother earth,so the question of ignoring this science gifted device doesn't arise.Moreover could you please be specific in explaining as to how do i improve my search results specially in google.Please reply or p.m me.