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 fluffythewondercat
 
posted on May 5, 2008 04:44:23 PM
Sorry I haven't posted lately but I've been too busy laughing.

Go to Google and type in "jody coyote". Just like that, in double quotes.

My Jody Coyote page is listed right there, around fifth place on the first page of search results.

This is the "organic search placement" everyone wants because it is free.

That JC page violates EVERY single SEO (search engine optimization) rule I've ever read. Here are a handful:

"Affiliate pages are BAD." (Page is full of affiliate links.)

"Google doesn't like pages with a lot of outbound links." (Thar be lots of outbound affiliate links here.)

"Google likes frequently updated pages." (Hasn't been updated in donkey's years.)

"Use bold tags around your keywords." (This is just silly.)

"Make sure you have links coming into your pages." (No one links to http://clearanceclarence.com/jodycoyote.html)

"Be sure to put the right terms in the meta and keyword tags." (This page doesn't even have meta or keyword tags.)

"Make sure your keywords don't appear more than three times on the page." (I count at least a half-dozen.)

Why does Google like this page? No clue. But for goat's sake please don't pay anyone to do SEO for you. It is clearly just a waste of money.

The bloom is off the longtail keywords thing for paid search, too, but that's another topic for another time.

fLufF
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 hwahwa
 
posted on May 5, 2008 06:50:04 PM
Google doesn't like pages with a lot of outbound links.
I wonder why Google does not like it?
I know Yahoo shopping does not like it because some shops are trying to avoid Yahoo fee.
AMZN does not mind if you have outbound links as long as you are not sending your buyer to make payment outside 'one click'.
Is it like if a girl has too many dates,you cant take her home to meet your parents?

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 jake
 
posted on May 8, 2008 09:59:27 AM
I've always wondered how many people run searches using quotes around the words? My guess is that most don't use them. But I know you usually get different results each way.


 
 cashinyourcloset
 
posted on May 8, 2008 10:47:56 AM
Jake, that's so you'll search for Jody & Coyote right next to each other, but skip listings that have, for example, "Jody Hassenpfeffer was incredibly embarrassed by his Coyote of a mother, who hit on all of his friends."

 
 fluffythewondercat
 
posted on May 8, 2008 11:00:51 AM
Did anyone know what "Coyote" means (in the current vernacular) before Ocean's Thirteen came out? I'd never heard it before.

But yes, Claude is correct.

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 cashinyourcloset
 
posted on May 8, 2008 11:55:04 AM
Fluff,

Ocean's Thirteen came out last year, and I'm almost certain that I'd heard the term used in that context earlier than that. IIRC, I first heard it from an employee of mine who claimed that half of her friends were coyotes. It does seem to be a side-effect that many women around here suffer from (no longer working, too much money, and too many IQ points with too little to do).

I was at the gym today (yes, I go, and it takes talent to continue looking like I do even though I go, but I do it for the $50 per month the gym pays me to NOT wear their T-shirt). A woman was explaining to her trainer that she shops every day, he responded "???EVERY day???," and she said "What else am I going to do?" Uh, let me see, read a book, get a job (volunteer if you don't need the money), give the nanny a break and spend some time with your kids, etc.

 
 
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