[documentation] Re: NEED CHANGE IN RSS OUTPUT

[Morbus Iff]

> Let me clarify this a bit more :  SEO is not just about data but 
> relevancy of a post against a search term which in most cases is set 
> higher on a string with the help of traffic correct? One of the things I 
> have noticed about Google is that blogs fall higher in searches and 
> almost always the format of the results is
> 
> BLOG NAME : Title of the post

Allow me innocence for a second.

My blog name is "Ketchup". I write a post about shoe laces. It's a pretty 
damn good post. Why would "Ketchup: Shoelaces" be more acceptable than 
"Shoelaces: Ketchup"? I'm not "selling" my blogname in a post about 
shoelaces, I'm "selling" the fact that I'm the god of shoelaces.

As a search engine *user*, I could give two shits about *who* wrote 
something. What's important to me is *what that person has said*. 
Authority or name recognition should not influence opinion. [1]

> Tell me if you can easily find the post by Democrats.com, which is a 
> Drupal site. In terms of usability, I am sure Jakob Nielsen would give 
> Drupal a -1 for setting the feeds like that. It's just a simple 

Opinion. Please give a useit.com article that expounds this belief of his. 
As far as I remember, his eyetracking study found that eyes move in a Z 
over an *entire* webpage. A search engine result is one to three lines.

> So I give you a -1 on not even considering this one of the most 

You've always gotta make things personal, don't you?

I agree with UnConeD (below): overloading a feed's item with the title of 
the site is wrong: there's a channel title element for that.

  "- It harms usability by putting non-specific and unrelated data (the
     feed/site title) in a specific field (the item title). The feed's
     title and source are already sent elsewhere in the feed, so that any
     good newsreader can (and does) show it in an appropriate fashion
     to the user when they ask for it."

[1] http://www.disobey.com/node/1554

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