Search Engine Stuff

Recently, I installed Ultimate Tag Warrior 3 on this site. It has some obvious SEO benefits on it’s own already. These are kind of obvious to me… extra keywords and links and pages? Oh my!

Today, I was writing an article and at the end I obliviously clicked the “Get Keyword Suggestions From Yahoo” button, I was surprised that my article about a certain keyword did not contain it enough to rate a suggestion. Ok, I had just gotten up for the day and my eyes still weren’t fully focusing, but still, I was humbled.

I also had one of those moments when a painfully obvious truth illuminates the dark recesses of the brain. This did not help my eyes much, but it was worth it.

On the assumption that for every mistake I make there is at least one other person out there who is prone to that same stupidity, I am going to explain.

What Ultimate Tag Warrior does is analyze your text using an algorithm that Yahoo has provided to select relevant keywords. Um, do you think Yahoo likes the results it gives or not?

When your audience tells you what they think about your product, you should listen. Search Engines are part of our audience. They are also that elusive part of the audience that gives references to the rest of the world.

If you write a blog entry and click that little button to get suggestions, don’t change the results to suit your purposes. Change your content to fit the purposes. Otherwise, you are ignoring some VERY good advice!

Really, SEO is pretty simple anymore. The tools are regularly already at our finger tips and being ignored everyday.

EDIT: The Keyword Suggestion Tool does not like really big articles. You may have to cut and paste huge articles into sections to test. When I bother to determine just how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop I will let you know.

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