[Hidden-tech] Puzzle for HT SEO experts

Charles Uchu Strader charles at gaiahost.coop
Wed Jul 11 21:35:42 EDT 2012


Rich,

I think Google now mostly ignores meta and is using a bit more refined process 
for deciding what descriptive text to appear for a link..that's why it does not 
appear for links to hidden-tech.net.

But all those other sites were just using less intelligent crawler data and 
grabbing the meta description to post on their own sites.

You may also want to do a simple review of your redirects for hidden-tech.com, 
as it's being essentially served up like a duplicate site.  If you redirect the 
.com to .net, you'll end up getting better results overall for .net.  Google's 
and Microsoft's webmaster tools will give you advice about that.

-Charles Strader
A worker-owner at Gaia Host Collective
http://gaiahost.coop


On 7/11/12 9:25 PM, Rich Roth wrote:
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> Peter good catch thanks (and to the other 5 people who reported it also)
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> Odd that Google doesn't report that text as existing on the pages
> Fixed and now recrawling.
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> Rich
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> 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"/>
>> Peter Pelland
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>> *From:* Claudia Gere <mailto:Claudia at ClaudiaGereCo.com>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:33 PM
>> *To:* hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net 
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>> *Subject:* Re: [Hidden-tech] Puzzle for HT SEO experts
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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 Wordpress test site. 
>> My web host wants to update it when there is a Wordpress update, and I think 
>> I've taken it down but somehow it still exists. I look forward to other 
>> comments. Cheers, Claudia
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>> *From:*hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net 
>> [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] *On Behalf Of *Rich Roth
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 11, 2012 7:21 PM
>> *To:* Hidden-Tech Tech
>> *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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>> www.hidden-tech.net <http://www.hidden-tech.net>: Typo
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>> webmaster at hidden-tech.net <mailto:webmaster at hidden-tech.net>
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>> Rich Roth mailto:rich at on-the-net.com
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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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>> webmaster at hidden-tech.net <mailto:webmaster at hidden-tech.net>
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>> This is an enquiry e-mail viahttp://www.hidden-tech.net/  from:
>> Joemailto:joe.weddell at gmail.com
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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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>> Have a great summer,
>> Joe Weddell
>> Northampton
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