Comments on: Don’t be too clever; this is for the Web http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/04/10/dont-be-too-clever-this-is-for-the-web/ General interest observations and true web-log. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:27:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: em http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/04/10/dont-be-too-clever-this-is-for-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-122416 em Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:13:26 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=4941#comment-122416 From the <a href="" title="" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html</a> # Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content. # Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it. # Make sure that your TITLE and ALT tags are descriptive and <b><em>accurate</em></b>. If you site is not about what your meta tags say it is you will be downrated by Google (and I presume others). From the http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

# Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
# Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
# Make sure that your TITLE and ALT tags are descriptive and accurate.

If you site is not about what your meta tags say it is you will be downrated by Google (and I presume others).

]]> By: SN http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/04/10/dont-be-too-clever-this-is-for-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-122201 SN Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:52:58 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=4941#comment-122201 <em>"So who here remembers meta data?"</em> Google (and others) don't use meta tags because they can be easily faked. E.g., you could put the term "Pamela Anderson" in the meta tag even though the site has nothing to do with her. “So who here remembers meta data?”

Google (and others) don’t use meta tags because they can be easily faked. E.g., you could put the term “Pamela Anderson” in the meta tag even though the site has nothing to do with her.

]]> By: V http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/04/10/dont-be-too-clever-this-is-for-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-122194 V Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:48:48 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=4941#comment-122194 So who here remembers meta data? And why haven't we come up with this as an obvious solution to identifying articles yet? So who here remembers meta data? And why haven’t we come up with this as an obvious solution to identifying articles yet?

]]> By: rizzn http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/04/10/dont-be-too-clever-this-is-for-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-121934 rizzn Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:09:29 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=4941#comment-121934 To be certain, a degree of sticking to the subject is required (or should be) when writing a headline, but shouldn't headline writers write their headlines the way they always have and let the search engine technology catch up to them? I know once this subject is broached and the cat is out of the bag, its a moot point, eventually everyone is going to start writing to 'the new standard.' Unfortunately, I think it may have an adverse affect in the ability of technology to actually rise to meet the challenge of doing what it wanted to do when it set out to index news articles. To be certain, a degree of sticking to the subject is required (or should be) when writing a headline, but shouldn’t headline writers write their headlines the way they always have and let the search engine technology catch up to them? I know once this subject is broached and the cat is out of the bag, its a moot point, eventually everyone is going to start writing to ‘the new standard.’ Unfortunately, I think it may have an adverse affect in the ability of technology to actually rise to meet the challenge of doing what it wanted to do when it set out to index news articles.

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