I ran across this question over on Yahoo answers and I have to admit that there are times that I have to just stop what I am doing and scratch my head.

Here’s the question;

The 5 must have pages for SEO?

So, from my understanding there are 5 important pages for your blog/website.

These are:
1) About Us
2) Contact Us
3) Terms of Use
4) FAQs
5) Home

But, does it matter exactly how I name them?
For an example I call “Terms of Use” for “Terms and Conditions.” Will google still recognize it as a “Terms of Use” page?

 

It seems to me that everyone is after the secret recipe and they spend more time doing crazy things then actually doing the things that will make them money.

 

Let’s say that you build a website and you add an About Us Page, Contact Us page and all the other pages that are supposed to help your site rank, when it’s all said and done you’ve got nothing.

 

However, if you build the website for the customer and ignore the search engines then you will have built a website the search engines love. Every page you add to the site starts off with some type of page rank that is then funneled back through the site helping all your pages rank.

 

Write a Terms of Use for problems that may come up with your business and not because you think that somehow it might make your site rank better in the search engines. I’ve seen no proof that any of those pages will help you rank in the search engines.