KevinC.
08-05-2003, 20:14/08:14PM
To give a brief overview, I have a website with about a hundred pages and on each page is a unique keyword phrase in the title. Mostly it’s a photographic site so even though I repeat the keyword phrase in text on the page as well as in description and keywords, honestly, the title rules.
Anyway, it wasn’t until I recently got Web Position that I could really see how all pages rank with their respective keyword phrases. The results are in and they are fairly interesting.
Every single page, without exception, has in the title:
Company Name, keyword phrase, los Angeles, l.a., la, California
First report I did was on google for keyword phrase Los Angeles. Ratings were terrific on the whole.
But then I did a report on keyword phrase + l.a, and also a report for + la. Results were poor. Lots of, “not in the top 30”
I thought this was odd since, la & l.a. are only one comma away from first location listed. So I was puzzled. Also, keyword phrase + California did terrific too.
Then a girl called and said she said that I was rating #1 #2 for a keyword phrase + L.a. on MSN. So I ran reports on msn, and unlike google, the ratings are terrific for all keywords + all locations.
Then for curiosity sake, I ran same thing with Fast and Alta Vista.
Alta Vista, like msn ranked terrific for almost everything. Fast, strangely enough, rated lousy even for the most important keyword +Los Angeles.
Anyway, here’s the upshot:
1) I don’t give a hoot about fast, but I’m a curious guy, and I’d love to know why unlike all other engines, Fast’s rating are so poor – so many pages not found, or not in top 30
2) What I care most about ,of course, is google. If every page has the simple title of: Company name, los Angeles, l.a.,la,caifornia, why are rating great for keyword phrase + los angeles (or) keyword phrase + California, but not keyword phrase + l.a or l.a.
The only idea I have is possible to take the company name out of the titles. Perhaps I could just put: keyword phrase+ los angeles, l.a., California. I’m not crazy about this as it’s not nearly as elegant when the page comes up to the client – just to see the keyword. I fishing for other feedb ack or comments. Thanks.
Lastly, I haven’t done extensive test, but it does not seem that google differentiates between l.a. or la. Thanks!
Kevin C.
[Moved from Google forum to here. Please read this (http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7575) for further clarification. - Jill]
Anyway, it wasn’t until I recently got Web Position that I could really see how all pages rank with their respective keyword phrases. The results are in and they are fairly interesting.
Every single page, without exception, has in the title:
Company Name, keyword phrase, los Angeles, l.a., la, California
First report I did was on google for keyword phrase Los Angeles. Ratings were terrific on the whole.
But then I did a report on keyword phrase + l.a, and also a report for + la. Results were poor. Lots of, “not in the top 30”
I thought this was odd since, la & l.a. are only one comma away from first location listed. So I was puzzled. Also, keyword phrase + California did terrific too.
Then a girl called and said she said that I was rating #1 #2 for a keyword phrase + L.a. on MSN. So I ran reports on msn, and unlike google, the ratings are terrific for all keywords + all locations.
Then for curiosity sake, I ran same thing with Fast and Alta Vista.
Alta Vista, like msn ranked terrific for almost everything. Fast, strangely enough, rated lousy even for the most important keyword +Los Angeles.
Anyway, here’s the upshot:
1) I don’t give a hoot about fast, but I’m a curious guy, and I’d love to know why unlike all other engines, Fast’s rating are so poor – so many pages not found, or not in top 30
2) What I care most about ,of course, is google. If every page has the simple title of: Company name, los Angeles, l.a.,la,caifornia, why are rating great for keyword phrase + los angeles (or) keyword phrase + California, but not keyword phrase + l.a or l.a.
The only idea I have is possible to take the company name out of the titles. Perhaps I could just put: keyword phrase+ los angeles, l.a., California. I’m not crazy about this as it’s not nearly as elegant when the page comes up to the client – just to see the keyword. I fishing for other feedb ack or comments. Thanks.
Lastly, I haven’t done extensive test, but it does not seem that google differentiates between l.a. or la. Thanks!
Kevin C.
[Moved from Google forum to here. Please read this (http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7575) for further clarification. - Jill]