I actually make the title of RFB posts "post title @ radio free
blogistan" because i want the key words in the title to be the most
relevant, but your point about branding is sound.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/1/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Liza Sabater</b> <<a href="mailto:blogdiva@culturekitchen.com">blogdiva@culturekitchen.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Let me clarify this a bit more : SEO is not just about data but<br>relevancy of a post against a search term which in most cases is set
<br>higher on a string with the help of traffic correct? One of the<br>things I have noticed about Google is that blogs fall higher in<br>searches and almost always the format of the results is<br><br>BLOG NAME : Title of the post
<br><br>On searches, you know it's a Drupal site because this order is<br>inverted and I have a big hard time with that. People don't spend<br>days and nights working on their blog's name for nothing. Putting the<br>name of the blog last may look nice to you but it is detrimental to
<br>the blog's brand. Look at this search string :<br><br><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=scalito&sourceid=mozilla-">http://www.google.com/search?q=scalito&sourceid=mozilla-</a><br>search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-
<br>a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official<br><br>Tell me if you can easily find the post by <a href="http://Democrats.com">Democrats.com</a>, which is a<br>Drupal site. In terms of usability, I am sure Jakob Nielsen would<br>
give Drupal a -1 for setting the feeds like that. It's just a simple<br>eyetracking thing.<br><br>In a sea of search results people will immediately gravitate to the<br>'hot zone'. Having the name of your site in the 'hot zone' should
<br>help people distinguish the post. It organizes the information of the<br>search string into readable chunks. Nielsen, btw, even has a course<br>on this :<br><br><a href="http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/eyetracking.html">
http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/eyetracking.html</a><br><br>> Search<br>><br>> * How do people look at search engine results pages (SERPs)?<br>> o on whole-Web search engines<br>> o on an individual website's internal search engine
<br>> * In SERPs, which presentation style, words, and parts of<br>> search results attract the most attention?<br>> * How do people look at organic listings vs. paid listings?<br><br>So I give you a -1 on not even considering this one of the most
<br>fundamental aspects of building a web-presence through the use of<br>Drupal. Users ought not to be software developers in order to<br>optimize their sites when using Drupal.<br><br>And just to finish this off, from A List Apart, "High Accessibility
<br>Is Effective Search Engine Optimization"<br><a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/accessibilityseo">http://www.alistapart.com/articles/accessibilityseo</a><br><br>I am from the Zeldman school of good desing = good accessibility =
<br>good SEO --and by design it is not just percentage of graphics per<br>page or just good CSS. Good design is good usability. My bible is<br><br>Designing With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman<br><a href="http://www.zeldman.com/dwws/">
http://www.zeldman.com/dwws/</a><br><br><br>/ liza<br><br><br>On Nov 23 2005, at 07:27, Morbus Iff wrote:<br><br>>>> culturekitchen | Murtha Resolution to Redeploy U.S. Forces from Iraq<br>>>> This is such a basic SEO issue, why in the world don't they ask
<br>>>> the designers, vendors and consultants BEFORE making code changes<br>>>> like these? I feel it is a waste of time when basics of<br>>>> optimization are<br>>> Are you _sure_ you understand how SEOs work? Maybe you can
<br>>> explain us, because I don't see how this is going to help. I'd<br>>> think a search engine might penalise you doing so. Also, what<br>>> code changes are you<br>><br>> I sub to about 200 RSS feeds and I don't recall seeing this sort of
<br>> tactic at all. I'd be rather annoying to me, actually, since most<br>> readers have other clear and present ways of indicating that a<br>> certain item is "owned" by a site (such as culturekitchen).
<br>><br>> So, -1 from me.<br>><br>> --<br>> Morbus Iff ( i think the "good book" is missing some pages )<br>> Technical: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779">http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779
</a><br>> Culture: <a href="http://www.disobey.com/">http://www.disobey.com/</a> and <a href="http://www.gamegrene.com/">http://www.gamegrene.com/</a><br>> icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / <a href="http://jabber.org">
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