blog - October 2009
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Oct 30th 2009 Audio Images website launch
Rick Weldon of Audio Images launches their new website this afternoon after a smooth debugging. We are proud of this one - not only because of the long standing relationship between the two companies - but as we feel it is a masterful delivery of simple navigation and the triumph of common sense over the unecessarily complicated for technical's sake. Although the website isn't fully loaded with all the proposed content as yet - we are proud to let it go out there - the big dark eternity of infinite webspace. Visit the website www.audio-images.co.uk
Oct 2nd 2009 Populate your keywords tag, but not for Google
Over on the Google Webmaster Central blog, there's an informative page on Google's attitude to the keywords tag in HTML - its not interested.
Long time web authors will no doubt be aware that when search engines first started becoming prevalent on the internet, the main 'Search Engine Optimisation' technique was to populate the HTML meta 'keywords' tag with a large list of everything you wanted to be found for. This practice of 'keyword stuffing' was frowned upon and Google's answer was to ignore the keywords tag and develop a better search robot and algorithm that didn't need it.
If you write content for the web, or are about to do so, the exercise of coming up with the keywords list is arguably more valuable than the actual keywords tag itself. In any case, be sure to include your keywords for a given page in a meta tag because although Google doesn't pay attention, other search engines do.
Beginning next month - the Hammer Design 6x6 offer for well-optimised search engine friendly websites.
Original Source: Google Webmaster Central blog
