google analytics
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You need to define “add more or do more customizing.” What, exactly, do you mean by that.
Also, when leaving a link to your blog, please preface it with http:// so it’s clickable.
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I should have clarified. I understand Google search query uses key tag words in my blog title. I want to write better snippets for the descriptive paragraph. It seems Google uses my meta tags and grabs the snippet from my posting. Do I understand this correctly?
Google grabs the snippets. The only way I can “help” Google is to use tag words in the first paragraph of my posting that are in my blog title. I can not create my own descriptive snippet unless I use wordpress.org and add plugins. Right?
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On those “descriptive snippets.” I have the opportunity to work with a couple of the best copyrighters around and time and time again I’ve seen them labor over site and page meta descriptions and tweak them to within an inch of their lives only to have google and the other search engines completely ignore them and pull something virtually meaningless out of the page, such as a widget title and an entry out of a twitter widget.
In my experience, those expertly crafted meta descriptions are only used about 40% of the time. Maximum.
Work on keywords in your posts and pages, write good material and pretty much forget about all this meta crap. Most of the SEO stuff out there is simply snake oil and all it does is end up taking hundreds of ours out of your life that you could spend doing more useful things.
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Thanks everyone, for some useful insights.
And Timethief I’m grateful for the hint about “excessive use” – though my sin is probably to write long in the first place, which means I’ll then tag all meaninglful topics and names. Hopefully if the spiders are so crafty as to double check tag against text, they will always find a mention of each. My tags may be numerous but are always legit!
Talking of which, I’ve often wondered whether there’s any point in tagging non-famous names, since in any population there will be many people sharing it, so what’s the point? Yup, OK, I’ve just answered my own question… La la la…
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The point that’s being missed here is that attempting to game Google’s search engine Staff and alogrithms is a futile waste of time.
1. Spamdexing is the deliberate assignment of an excessive number of tags toa post aimed to get search engine attention. It’s a well known spammer’s tactic. The motive is crystal clear. The spiders will detect that behavior and COUGH! your posts can be buried on the very last page in the SERPs in nanoseconds flat.
2. We don’t need to use categories and tags to our posts at all. Our content can stand on it’s own as search spiders detect keywords in the text of the posts. Keywords occur in any language when that language is naturally written or spoken. So is it worth spending time on creating tags and categories for SEO purposes? The short answer is “no”.
Here’s Matt Cutt’s of Google -
A welcome splash of cold water, Timethief! Takes us back to basics – in my case, the blog is non-profit social history, so I’m less interested in hits, more in straight categorising of data. As you rightly say the topics that the blog addresses are in themselves keywords which will routinely be used in the text, so let’s rely on the spiders finding them there.
My site stats have shown a steady increase in views over the blog’s two-year life which is encouraging. Three-quarters of visitors arrive through search and I do find studying the terms they have used is always instructive!
Thanks again, all round.
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