web visitors?

[Markku Savela]

gatrelle at tils-ttr.org (Ron Gatrelle) writes:

> Neil, you act like this is some big deal.    I don't know hardly anything
> about this stuff, but I do know it is a common and _totally acceptable
> practice_ for web sites to have all kinds of "key words" running in the
> background in order to let people know _their_ site is there.   I don't
> care what words anyone uses, and I don't really think anyone else does
> either.

On this *technical* issue I have to lean to the Neil's side.

At least, I would be pretty annoyed, as a user, if I was searching for
some information and based on some lying keyword, I would waste my
time on a page that doesn't interest me.

Sadly, keyword spamming has become so common, that search engines may
actually ignore them totally. My pages don't use keywords at all.

Although, quite innocently I have mislead people. At one time, the
page on genus "Pamela" got guite a lot of hits. I don't think they got
what they were looking for. Same would go for any of my pages that
happens to have the word "female" and "picture" in the content :-)

There are probably other insteresting scientific names, some of which
may be trademarks or names of companies (like Rapala).


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Markku Savela <Markku.Savela at iki.fi>

 
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