Be Careful with Blog Post Titles and Website Titles
Posted In Search Engine Optimization, Web PromotionA fellow twitterer was nice enough to review my websites out of the kindness of her heart. She has brought something to my attention with one of my websites which forced me to look at my other ones. My one website PoolPuppy.com is a swimming pool company directory. It has a slim amount of content but I really haven’t promoted it that much or have added the features to it that I want to yet. But she told me that if you typed in “Puppy Swimming Pool” in Google, that PoolPuppy.com was the first one to appear. I was shocked and felt like a freaking idiot. How did I miss that? I don’t sell Puppy Swimming Pools but the name alone pulled the wrong information. She told me to go back and re-evaluate my alt tags and meta tags which I will do tonight. I think I am going to completely remove the word puppy as much as I can. It’s just a brand I came up with.
That also brings me to my other site which is called SwimUniversity.com. I think with this site I am going to have to get rid of all my meta tags and alt tags that have to do with a University. I do not run a college, I run a swimming pool care website, but I can see where Google can get confused and not give me the ranking my websites deserved. So again thank you for the tip @yuyudin. What a big help she was today. See this is how Twitter can impact your life.
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Actually meta keywords play absolutely zero role in how you rank in Google. Google ignores meta keywords. However the words in your domain name, general content, page titles, heads and sub heads as well as alt tags all do. It is a wise Idea to use a company name/ domain name that describes your business and then use these and related keywords in all the places that I mentioned. I hope that helps.