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Mental Meanderings
By Julie | October 10, 2008
Links: So, Google is helpfully telling us about links this week. Their conclusion? Make a decent web site with good content. If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the corner snoring.
Meta-Keywords: Oh, how I hate the meta-keyword tag. Many of my company’s clients are approached by so-called ‘SEO experts’ who clearly have little but a copy of SEO For Dummies under their belt, and they analyze the meta-keywords tag and proclaim my company incompetent.
The Natural Search Blog is suggesting that having lots of crud in the meta-keywords tag may be a negative signal to Google. If I can find a way to demonstrate this, happy days will be here.
GAudi: I shall quote Susan, and proclaim the video-to-text indexing they’re doing at http://www.youtube.com/youchoose to be ‘Really cool.’ I’ll also say it’s much needed and overdue. The real question is going to be what happens as better indexing methods start showing up all the places people have the same video? The present distribution economy for video encourages people to upload videos on a billion sites. Speech-to-text can start identifying duplicate videos… then what?
A Day in the Life: Speaking of incompetent external consultants, and video, the following fine YouTube video shows a day in the life of one of my most ninja-esque Search Marketers, unborking the borked:
Topics: :), SEM, SEO, content strategy, day job, google, link building, marketing, metadata, video |
