Take A Googlebot On A Date – Part I.

I’ve had many people ask me recently about what Google is looking for when the mysterious Googlebot crawls their website. I with most everything I have people explain to me, to keep things in layman’s terms. Think of the Googlebot as someone you really want to take out for a great night on the town.

Make a Good 1st Impression!

Like you want to do on any 1st date, make a good 1st impression. Make everything as perfect and as well thought out as possible. Now you can’t exactly make your site smell good or give your fellow dater (the Googlebot) flowers, but you can make sure everything is buttoned up and ready for a good night. For instance, one of the first things a Googlebot notices is basics, like tags. Make sure your tags, yes all of them including title, meta content, meta keywords, alt tags etc… are in good shape. Also avoid being fake (no tag stuffing) and make sure they make sense.

Don’t Be Cheap or Sell Yourself Short!

It’s very easy on dates to forget about the little things, but daters always notice the little things on the 1st date especially the Googlebot. When your describing something, BE DESCRIPTIVE. Makes enough sense, but time and time again I run into newby webmasters that create a graphic masterpiece with little to no detail describing the masterpiece. Remember, the Googlebot or your date aren’t mindreaders. If you don’t share as much as you can to your date. You don’t want to go home from the date that night or after the Googlebot has left your site thinking “what ifs” for hours. Make it count then and there. Let it all hang out. I mean for god sake’s, this could be THE ONE or the crawl that lands you on the 1st Page!

Part II coming soon. By the way, the Algo-holics just launched our new site. Take a look if you get a sec. http://directhitsolutions.com

Google Improves Keyword Tool – Migraines Vanish!

Ok. Cheers to Google. I’ve had SEO migraines for years now, but they have miraculously vanished now that Google has improved their keyword research tool. What have they done? What they should’ve done years ago. Google has now added numerical data or actual monthly Search volume as part of the free keyword tool. Who knows why they gave such a vague green bar without actual Search volume numbers before, but those days seem to be over. Now if they’d incorporate KEI , better Keyword Trends and some other basics, Wordtracker and Wordze might be in for an early retirement. So jager bombs our on the Algo-holics at Direct Hit Solutions to all parties responsible for lifting our SEO migraines and making keyword research better.

Wikipedia Live??? Wikipedia, The Most Helpful and Up To Date Resource Online

The staff at Direct Hit Solutions are huge MMA (Mixed Martial Arts, Cagefighting) fans, so to no surprise, we were all extremely excited on the huge MMA Superfight at UFC 86 this weekend. Unfortunately for myself, I was unable to watch the Rampage Jackson vs. Forest Griffin headliner, but I was able to keep track thanks to many useful MMA blogs and Wikipedia? Yes Wikipedia. I was tuned into the fight as much as possible this past Saturday night and I’m a huge Rampage Jackson, former UFC light-heavyweight Champion. Anyways, as I mentioned, I was able to get live updates all night, but these updates seemed to slow down once the main event started. It was making me crazy not to know what was going on but that soon changed as I was able to find the results thanks to your friend and mine, Wikipedia. Believe it or not, the top result on Google for “UFC 86 Results” exactly when the fight concluded was our trusty friend Wikipedia. We all know that Wikipedia is optimized like crazy for general static info, but I never would have guessed that it would rank as the top Search Result for a live MMA Event. I’m officially calling Wikipedia, the most valuable website on the Internet. Congrats to Wikipedia and drinks are on the house!