Poor Old Gareth Farr
March 31st 2007 09:24
The quote from Justin Daniel about page optimisation I included in a recent post has links with the HitTail approach, insofar as it’s keywords that don’t bring up a huge number of Google responses that are likely to more useful than ones that do.
Someone out there has a thing about Gareth Farr and the word, ‘naked,’ and it’s brought my
Random Notes blog up in sixth place out of a large number of Google responses. Now I don’t know why someone is concerned to link together poor old Gareth Farr, the NZ composer, and the word, ‘naked,’ but because I keep mentioning it in my blog, they keep finding it.
I don’t know anything much about Gabriel Zaid, except that he’s quoted in a book by Nick Hornby that I wrote about recently – and I used a quote from Zaid in my post. In a search on Blogger, my post was listed second. I’m going to mention Zaid again!
Justin Daniel says that the words you want people to find (whether it be your trade name, or the fact that you sell a particular kind of pizza and deliver it quickly, or that you write about a somewhat beleaguered NZ composer called Gareth Farr) should appear in your meta tags. Being on Blogger, this isn’t so easy – and I haven’t yet figured out meta tags on Orble, either. But for someone with their own site, this is a breeze.
Of course, says Daniel, the keywords should appear in your title tag. Obviously far more useful if your website is very focused on a particular thing. I can’t see a website called Gareth Farr Naked bringing much excitement to the Internet – except to that person who keeps searching for it.
Interestingly enough, another point Daniel makes is to use bolds or italics when you write the keyword in your site. He warns not to do it too often, because Google gets a bit uppity about such repetition (it’s vain repetition in the truest sense), but it can be done a few times without Google having a fit.
Someone out there has a thing about Gareth Farr and the word, ‘naked,’ and it’s brought my
I don’t know anything much about Gabriel Zaid, except that he’s quoted in a book by Nick Hornby that I wrote about recently – and I used a quote from Zaid in my post. In a search on Blogger, my post was listed second. I’m going to mention Zaid again!
Justin Daniel says that the words you want people to find (whether it be your trade name, or the fact that you sell a particular kind of pizza and deliver it quickly, or that you write about a somewhat beleaguered NZ composer called Gareth Farr) should appear in your meta tags. Being on Blogger, this isn’t so easy – and I haven’t yet figured out meta tags on Orble, either. But for someone with their own site, this is a breeze.
Of course, says Daniel, the keywords should appear in your title tag. Obviously far more useful if your website is very focused on a particular thing. I can’t see a website called Gareth Farr Naked bringing much excitement to the Internet – except to that person who keeps searching for it.
Interestingly enough, another point Daniel makes is to use bolds or italics when you write the keyword in your site. He warns not to do it too often, because Google gets a bit uppity about such repetition (it’s vain repetition in the truest sense), but it can be done a few times without Google having a fit.
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Comment by Gareth Farr
As a starving artist I may be poor, but at 39, I'm not that old, am I?
Well, it's good of you to think of my feelings and show concern about my "beleagueredness" (is that even IN the dictionary?) but please don't worry - I haven't noticed any telescopes aimed at my house lately, and my nakedness hasn't been noticed by a soul (it only happens twice a day). And for your peace of mind - garethfarrnaked.com is not on my list of things to do anytime in the near future.
All the best
Gareth Farr (not naked)
Comment by Mike Crowl
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Nah, 39 is a pretty good age, really, these days. Could be considered positively young, in fact.
'beleagueredness'? Yup, you may be right about its lack of dictionary placement, but I've used it more than once in my lifetime...
Thanks for dropping by.