[CS community] Re: [documentation] Re: NEED CHANGE IN RSS OUTPUT

[Christian Crumlish]

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.

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