Comments on: Google Ain’t the Only Game in Town http://thirstypony.com/2006/11/google-aint-the-only-game-in-town/ Search Marketing - Simplified Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:12:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dave Pye http://thirstypony.com/2006/11/google-aint-the-only-game-in-town/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Dave Pye Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:42:47 +0000 http://thirstypony.com/2006/11/google-aint-the-only-game-in-town/#comment-12 Hi Harvey, I definitely made some gross generalizations in that post in the interests of segmenting the algos somewhat. You're right, Google doesn't completely ignore meta data, and you should always take what humans are seeing into account (search result snippets) alongside the spiders. Thanks for the comment. Hi Harvey,

I definitely made some gross generalizations in that post in the interests of segmenting the algos somewhat. You’re right, Google doesn’t completely ignore meta data, and you should always take what humans are seeing into account (search result snippets) alongside the spiders. Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Harvey http://thirstypony.com/2006/11/google-aint-the-only-game-in-town/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Harvey Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:52:22 +0000 http://thirstypony.com/2006/11/google-aint-the-only-game-in-town/#comment-11 I tend to disagree that google ignores meta tags. Sure, they may not carry much weight in the relevancy algo, but the meta description is Google's first choice of text for your search result snippet (well, first choice after the dmoz description that is). So I like my snippets to look more interesting than my competetion, which means the meta description is a really key part of SEO / SEM. Interesting how you say MSN loves internal linking - most of my sites are well linked internally, and most perform well in msn. I guess I never really made than connection. I tend to disagree that google ignores meta tags.

Sure, they may not carry much weight in the relevancy algo, but the meta description is Google’s first choice of text for your search result snippet (well, first choice after the dmoz description that is).

So I like my snippets to look more interesting than my competetion, which means the meta description is a really key part of SEO / SEM.

Interesting how you say MSN loves internal linking – most of my sites are well linked internally, and most perform well in msn. I guess I never really made than connection.

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