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Old 08-15-2005, 03:05 PM
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Default Re: on-page text

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Originally Posted by google junky
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on-page text doesn't have a huge amount of weight anyway (traditionally low, but it does have SOME weight).
The first few lines of on-page text and last few lines are very important. The very first line of on-page text on your site is as equally important as your <title>. You have been sadly mislead. This is one of the more important things at the top of the list.
The first text makes an almost for sure site description when getting listed in google if that first text is starts with your main searched for keyword or phrase.
Ok, so if it's the first line of text, then miserable failure was a fluke, right? So are all the other bombs. Apple ranking for the word computers when they don't use that word must be a fluke too.

Yes, for most of us the first few lines of text have some weight. However, content isn't as big of an issue on Google as the other engines which are, at this point, well behind Google in detecting things like hidden text.

Brian.
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