Comments on: Anatomy of Organic Listing Snippets in the SERPs and Outlining Best Practices

By: Grace

Grace — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:43:07 +0000

Oh great! I’ve been having problems with the meta descriptions and it seems that your tips will really help a lot. Thanks.

By: Lois

Lois — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:52:37 +0000

Well, I have never thought checking on the snippets on the site, I thought that they are not really important because of the keywords, but it seems that your post says not. Just to make sure, I’ll check on them later. Thanks for the information btw.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:59:14 +0000

@Hostmonster: I think that most websites that have keywords like “welcome” or “homepage” aren’t really trying to rank for these, rather a function of the content management system (CMS). The biggest challenge, that I see, is that website owners are targeting the most popular keywords rather than the best converting keywords. The greater challenge is having the understanding of this and patience to implement and study the analytics.

Thanks for the comment.

By: Hostmonster

Hostmonster — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:47:14 +0000

@pittfall- I totally agree with your article. This way you have some control over which keywords your site is targeted for.

A lot of times websites are targeted for totally irrelevant keywords like: Welcome or homepage. These keywords might give you traffic, just not the targeted traffic you want.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:24:39 +0000

@Hostmonster – The question is whether you want them to choose or have some editorial influence.

Thanks for the comment

By: Hostmonster

Hostmonster — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:04:44 +0000

Sometimes if you dont have a title and description meta tag. they use the first 100 or so words in your post.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:31:36 +0000

Ruben,

I think that the most important thing to come from this information is reinforcing your marketing message withing the given number of characters.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:56:56 +0000

Chloe,

Thanks for the vote of confidence, and I am glad I can help.

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:04:33 +0000

You said the magic numbers for Title, Description and URL are as follow…

Title – 60 characters with spaces
Description – 150 characters with spaces
URL – 85 characters

To many web sites, change to those rules will have to change the entire web site, and do not count the cost that will have with not found links at Google Search…

I´ll check my web site and see, if I need to do some changes…

Thanks for your tips.

By: Chloe Edwards

Chloe Edwards — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:39:57 +0000

Quality post and thanks for the tips.
I am constantly trying to get my clients to write good copy for their sites, instead what they come back with is far from geared for seo.