Comments for Lyndsay Walker : lyndseo : Search Engine Optimization

Comment on Love Note from a Stranger by L.L.

L.L. — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:41:51 +0000

Ha ha ha ha ha… I’m not gonna lie… I can’t stand when people park across multiple spaces, however, I totally understand why they do. I guess it’s not that bad if you park far enough away from everyone else. Still, funny note.

Comment on Love Note from a Stranger by Lyndsay Walker

Lyndsay Walker — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:35:06 +0000

@Gab Goldenberg
Oh Gab! I actually have a story about that!

Back in 2003, I was driving in the parkade at work. I always parked on the fourth level. On the first level in a stairway door, I saw a guy leaning there, staring at me. By time I got to the third level, he was leaning there too and had his dick out, stroking it for me. I parked, and RAN inside and called the cops. I asked a male coworker to go make sure there was no jizz on my care. There wasn’t, phew!

Comment on Love Note from a Stranger by Gab Goldenberg

Gab Goldenberg — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:23:01 +0000

I guess the plus side is they didn’t jizz on the window? lol

Comment on Do you use the META keywords tag? by Topher Kohan

Topher Kohan — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:21:30 +0000

Yes I use ut because a lot of on site search applications still use the meta keywords to return results.

Comment on Love Note from a Stranger by Dan Overes

Dan Overes — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:05:20 +0000

Haha — too funny. That’s something my wife’s brother would do. When he sees someone taking up two parking spots he will specifically park right next to them as close as he possibly can just to annoy them.

Comment on Do you use the META keywords tag? by Scott Polk

Scott Polk — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:30:59 +0000

Yes – I still use them, but automate the population – you never know what the engines may or may not revert back to. Not to mention it simply is a way to audit/task pages with keywords.

As far as saving space for more body copy to be spidered … highly doubtful that would be an issue in any major search engine. I have pages that have over 3500 words of indexed content on them … no issues there.

I do not believe you will be hurting yourself in the rankings by not using them, but I look items like this as “tie breakers” – all other things being even, this “may” help you – I say sweat the small stuff (but automate it)

Comment on Do you use the META keywords tag? by Alysson

Alysson — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:11:12 +0000

Because some bookmarking services automatically populate titles, descriptions and keywords fields with the META information, I still use them. It takes only a few seconds to paste the target terms from a keyword map document into the META tag.

Comment on Do you use the META keywords tag? by Brian

Brian — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:23:29 +0000

Lyndsay, long time no see; maybe at pubcon again this year.

If a new client has been trying to stuff their meta with keywords, I just delete everything except the single keyword phrase I am trying to rank for. I use it just in case antiquated search engines still look at it. I haven’t noticed any negative affect in Google unless a client is keyword stuffing. If all you care about is Google and you are starting from scratch, I would skip it; keep that load time down to a minimum.

Comment on Do you use the META keywords tag? by John Thyfault

John Thyfault — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:08:29 +0000

We used to use it as a documentation tool. It was never really effective for anything else.

We have backed out this year as part of our incremental page speed improvement effort for our clients. It is a small bit of bytes but every little byte counts. (feel free to groan over the alliteration)

Comment on Do you use the META keywords tag? by Lyndsay Walker

Lyndsay Walker — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:42:53 +0000

@Jack Leblond
That’s actually what drove me to ask the question. I don’t even want to spend a minute on it when I can use those 60 seconds for something more productive (which, in this case, appears to have been creating a poll).