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There have been reports that some meta tags are dead and yet other reports that they are not. Recently I read that meta tags are alive and well, and mak­ing a come-back (depend­ing on the search engine they weren’t gone).

One really impor­tant point I read today at my fav forum www.webproworld.com, was that “Sites with generic, or absence of, meta-description tags, may find them­selves going sup­ple­men­tal, or sim­ply not show­ing prop­erly for their con­tent.” This would of course cover the Title tag.

Chris, one of the Admins at Web Pro World stated “even Matt Cutts, Tim Mayer, Greg Boser (the best speaker about SEO, IMO) and Heather Lloyd-Martin said make sure your meta tags are well-written. They do not, how­ever, need to be stuffed with key­words and phrases.”

More to come on this.

Any­one who deals in SEO knows that organic SEO is important!

You May Be In Google Sup­ple­men­tal Index

Google uses two indexes for its search results. The nor­mal index and the sup­ple­men­tal results index.

What Is It Sup­ple­men­tal Index?

Google says:

“A sup­ple­men­tal result is just like a reg­u­lar web result, except that it’s pulled from our sup­ple­men­tal index. We’re able to place fewer restraints on sites that we crawl for this sup­ple­men­tal index than we do on sites that are crawled for our main index. For exam­ple, the num­ber of para­me­ters in a URL might exclude a site from being crawled for inclu­sion in our main index; how­ever, it could still be crawled and added to our sup­ple­men­tal index.”

Why Is My Site Here?

Here are some reasons:

- your pages are dynam­i­cally gen­er­ated
- you don’t have unique con­tent on your web­pages
- you use door­way pages
- your title and descrip­tion tags are the same on every page

If your web pages are listed in the sup­ple­men­tal results then they won’t be returned very often for reg­u­lar search queries. Pages that appear on the main index will almost always show up first in a search. Sup­ple­men­tal search results will only show up if there are very few or no results at all in the main index.

What can you do?

A num­ber of things but a cou­ple that will really help is unique, rel­e­vant qual­ity con­tent and have spe­cific meta tags for each indi­vid­ual page. It is much eas­ier to avoid being placed in the sup­ple­men­tal index than it is to be taken out. So do it right the first time!

Read more here: http://www.jbcr-virtualsolutions.com/tips-and-articles.html

I’m happy to announce that the Novem­ber Vir­tu­aloso newslet­ter is now avail­able. In this issue I cover:

1. What hap­pened to my web­site? (Am I banned?)
2. Pric­ing Your Prod­ucts (Low is not always best.)
3. Are You Loos­ing Sales? (What about those exit pages?)
4. Bill Gates Video (You have to see this!)
5. Vlog (Video blog or it can be added to your cur­rent blog.)

If you have not signed up for my newslet­ter yet I invite you to do so. The form is just on the right side.

Hope to see you there!

Jan