Comments on: Blogging Triage (or How To Get More With Less)

By: Mark Eckenrode

Mark Eckenrode — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:39:26 +0000

@Joseph Ferrara.sellsius - for sure, joe. great thing about this tweak is that it nicely displays content for readers, and provides an seo boost.

By: Joseph Ferrara.sellsius

Joseph Ferrara.sellsius — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:50:36 +0000

Great tips, as usual, Mark. Presentation of content is as important as the content because it may get more folks to read it.

By: Mark Eckenrode

Mark Eckenrode — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:06:44 +0000

@Jack Leblond – totally my bad, jack, thought i’d replied to you earlier… it’s very interesting how google has made shifts away from quantitative ranking and is looking more at qualitative factors.

for example: it’s not just a factor to have a bunch of backlinks, but to make sure the content of those pages are related to the page they’re linking to on your own site. which is actually the same concept i talked about in the post.

that’s some smart nerdy algorithms but it definitely makes the web more useful for all involved.

By: Jack Leblond

Jack Leblond — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:35:07 +0000

Mark – Great article! You’ve identified and corrected a major problem that many blogs have.

Many of us have had the “gotta use every keyword and variation of keywords” method drummed into our heads for years. Back in the olden days when search bots were too dumb to understand word variations, it was a good idea to include all theses words in your meta tags. But, just like meta tags, the blog tags have now been abused to the point you describe here and they are (mostly) useless to the reader.

Yes, it’s good to let Google find your pages – but if your readers can’t, what good are they?

My number one SEO rule is write for the reader, not for the robot. What you have outlined here is exactly that.