My guess is that that "fried chicken" is not one of those words that will get you many valid sites becuase (I hope I'm not too stereotypical) most people selling fried chicken really don't care or know about the issues that go into making a website and as long as it looks good in their OS with their browser at their screen size. In short, I think one reason that those sites are so bad is becuase their is nothing better to replace them.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jono Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] SEO, Semantics, and Web Standards
I've always been fascinated by the search results for for certain words on Google. Sometimes it is hard to tell - by viewing page source - why the top result is in fact the top result. For exampel, try searching for "Fried Chicken" on Google. Take a look at the top two results, and then take a look at their code. You'll discover that Number 2 is much worse than number 1, which is not very good to begin with. If clean code has anything to do with SEO, this is definitely a good case study. The third result has the worst coding of them all... I'm not sure how it even made it to number 3?
There is also a lop-sided brand competition between the top two ( see 1 & 2 in Google search results for "Fried Chicken" ), which probably has a lot to do with it as well.
On Feb 24, 2005, at 7:48 PM, heretic wrote:
behindSo can I hear it from the experts (ie: you guys) what the truth
SEO really is. Are semantics worth anything?Well, it's hard to find the hard data to back this up... but what does
come up consistently is this: semantically-correct markup will improve
rankings. I can't say definitively how much it will improve, but it
does seem to work :)
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