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1. Mercurialol
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Oh noes, another SEO thread...

   Oh well. I'm using All-in-one SEO pack, and I've read some really neat articles explaining everything that has to be explained, so my questions are more WHY than HOW TO...

   1. Lets say I have a page with a title "Woohoo". Permalinks enabled. Keyword, description, meta tags... Everything! So we have http://www.mysite.net/wohoo/ . But woohoo is mentioned on some other pages aswell, like on page "Yahoo", so when I google for "Woohoo", http://www.mysite.net/wohoo/ is nowhere in the results, but http://www.mysite.net/yahoo/ IS, and in it's description "Woohoo" is highlighted, which is okay, but why isn't the original page showed and the yahoo one is ?

   2. Even though I have descriptions written for every page, when I google for something and SOME of my pages (doesn't happen on all) show up in the results, description shows page listing of my site like: "page1name page2name page3name ... lastpagename RSS...". Why is that?

   3. Most of the articles write about tweaking title, meta tags, keywords etc. But I haven't found an explanation how to track results? What IS a good result ? To appear on the first page ? After a week? Month? I'm aware results are never the same, but I'd just like to hear some testimonies on this.

   Thanks in advance

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   A good result is that when people google for the primary keywords/search criteria of your site, you show up on the first page. But a lot of that is a relativistic issue.

   Honestly, you're better off spending time making well written posts, getting links from other well written sites, and networking that way. Tweaking your meta data just makes sure that when you are google crawled, the data they pull is relevant to your topic at hand.

   You're asking kind of generic questions, as it happens :) I mean, these aren't WordPress specific (though they feel that way). It's more 'How does SEARCH know what my site's about!'

   Watch these: http://www.google.com/howgoogleworks/

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