[Hidden-tech] Puzzle for HT SEO experts

Rich Roth rich at on-the-net.com
Wed Jul 11 21:25:07 EDT 2012


Peter good catch thanks (and to the other 5 people who reported it also)

Odd that Google doesn't report that text as existing on the pages
Fixed and now recrawling.

Rich

On 7/11/2012 8:48 PM, Peter Pelland wrote:
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> This is so simple, folks. Correct the spelling in the description tag. 
> About the only purpose that meta tag serves these days is in providing 
> Google with the start of the description that appears in search results.
> <meta  name="description"content="Hidden tech is a community of small business using technolgy, including both technical people and others like writers, marketers and videographiers"/>
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> I'm not an SEO expert, but I think Google is looking at the old or 
> Hidden-Tech test site. Someone was talking with me and thought our 
> Hidden-Tech.net site was down, but she had actually been looking at 
> our old or test site. I've encountered the same problem with my 
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> *Rich Roth
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 11, 2012 7:21 PM
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> *Subject:* [Hidden-tech] Puzzle for HT SEO experts
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> It appears that the HT descrption/summary on google has some typos 
> (see below)
> however that text does not appear on the current HT site (no idea if 
> it used to)
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> SO how do we fix it, search this on google to see the issue
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> hidden-tech "technolgy" "videographiers"
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> Any ideas ?
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> Rich/webmaster
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> Mon, 9 Jul 2012 13:17:38 -0400
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> Joe mailto:joe.weddell at gmail.com
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> This is an enquiry e-mail viahttp://www.hidden-tech.net/  from:
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> Hi,
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> The description of your site that turns up in a Google search spells "technology" as "technolgy" and "videographers" as "videographiers." I am not a spelling Nazi or anything, but since this is a business/ professional-oriented website, I thought you would want to know!
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