#9 -- Apparently, I stand corrected on this one--sitemaps do appear to help some people, just not me :). My main gripe with them is I expected my priorities to

#9 -- Apparently, I stand corrected on this one--sitemaps do appear to help some people, just not me :). My main gripe with them is I expected my priorities to at least somewhat translate into what pages were indexed, and at least on my sites, these priorities seem to have no effect. A second gripe is that for some people they are difficult to set up, and so if you were going to pick whether to do link building or sitemaps, I'd choose link building. But I guess it is a case by case thing. #13 -- It's all about your SEO goals & priorities. I just have noticed it and wanted people to be aware of it, because it isn't that obvious. #6 -- sure, case by case it might make sense. I sort of offered an exception in the description. I'm just warning people of the rookie mistake of going after a key phrase without taking into account the likelihood of actually getting ranked for it in any useful manner.