Yahoo Google
Hello everyone,
I dont post often enough but this post and another had me slapping the keys...
On the Yahoo Google debate..
Are you as webmasters seos attuned to which search engine drives traffic and which one drives buyers ???
Would your clients care who you prefer ??? None of mine do...they prefer I know how to drive what they're looking for ...visits or buyers..
I looked at google about two months ago looking for some title tag clues...while I was there I noticed google still had meta description tags but no meta keywords... This was in the page source for the google groups, news, images etc.
I went tonight and those meta description tags bit the dust, removed from the coding, gone. So that tends to lead me to believe google dumped them both for themselves and as for having any relevancy. ( This will be a joy explaining to clients )
Here is something else I noticed googlebot is taking the first path to text it sees and following that direction to make it's crawl..left to rightm top to bottom or down and up, left to right. I spent the weekend putting a space above my menu on the left hand sde of my pages so the bot would crawl left to right to pick up my Heading tags.
I have seen frontpage listings with the meta description in the results listing, site links from left hand nav in the results listing, and body content in the results listings for the same keyword terms.
Googles last update seemed to be a spam reduction attempt to appease investors in their IPO.. their time to index sites new to the web has moved over two months typically closer to three, and yet yahoo has a sign up saying "we are two weeks behind in our indexing"
As far as yahoo using meta keywords for content matching...from what I learned it was always that way to begin with..if the keywords weren't in your body content they did not belong in the metas...If they were in the metas and not in the content you got dinged a notch for it...I still think it holds true and yahoo in a way is saying that is the case.
Maybe its a corp culture switch...google becomes the next microsoft..shutting its doors to all the prying eyes....yahoo becomes google opens the doors wide open, ...microsoft becomes linux .....This is too deep for me to continue on with ...
I always felt it better to spread the pages across as many SEs and directories as possible that are of signifigance...those listings are one way links back to your site most times...if I can get one targted buyer from splat search to hit a clients site and make a purchase, its still profit in their pocket..
In the theme of the election...one vote does count....one buying customer from any search engine or directory counts too...did you know for example dogpile, and aol are better search engines to market to kids with ???
Hope this helps and makes sense.
Prepare for the holidays it should be a fun relaxing time..
Clint
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