http://www.newfangled.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/10004 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:51:42 -0500 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:51:42 -0500
Thank you for the article - it's a great introduction into optimizing a site for search engines, and your approach is terrific.

I do think it's important to note the importance of the description meta tag, however. You write, "You can also place your target words and phrases in the keywords and description fields....As a result search engines pretty much ignore these fields."

While this is true in terms of the rank of a webpage, the description field is not ignored when it comes to the display of a webpage. Often, search engines (including Google) display the description meta tag as the "blurb" of text that appears below the site name in the results pages. This blurb influences the decision of the user to click through to the site, so taking the time to write a good description meta tag is really important to click-thrus, if not to rankings.

On the other hand, I totally agree with you about the keywords meta tag. We're even exploring removing that altogether, in an effort to simplify clients' on-site SEO maintenance.]]> http://www.newfangled.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/10004#comment11827 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:50:03 -0500 http://www.newfangled.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/10004#comment11826 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:55:18 -0500
I enjoyed this article thanks. I think the main thing I took away from it (as a fairly new SEO and site owner) is that I nee d to optimize EVERY page of my site. That makes a lot of sense. And a great example of this is this site: www.sqlmanager.net. These guys dominate Google search results. I was looking for a tool today to manage a database and they were everywhere! Anyway... ths is not a plug for them but this was something that blew me away today. Keep up the good work!]]> http://www.newfangled.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/10004#comment11779 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:30:45 -0400 http://www.newfangled.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/10004#comment13378 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:38:44 -0400 http://www.newfangled.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/10004#comment16883 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:43:03 -0400 http://www.newfangled.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/10004#comment17420 Wed, 27 May 2009 22:18:05 -0400 http://www.newfangled.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/10004#comment18296 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:29:38 -0400