Comments on: Search Engine Optimization: the art of ti… http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/08/search-engine-optimization-the-art-of-ti.html Tech' views that are 667% more interesting than the tech' news itself... Sat, 17 May 2008 19:20:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Wayne Smallman http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/08/search-engine-optimization-the-art-of-ti.html#comment-592 Wayne Smallman Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:03:00 +0000 http://sv2.mhlists.net/~wwwblah/index.php/2007/08/24/search-engine-optimization-the-art-of-ti/#comment-592 It's worth pointing out that David's got an extensive background in journalism, with a science flavour.<br/><br/>I recently wrestled with a title / headline, which he advised on.<br/><br/>I wasn't initially sold by his argument. But the <a HREF="http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/07/openid-to-pave-way-for-web-30.html" REL="nofollow">OpenID as Web3.0</a> article did pretty good as a result... It’s worth pointing out that David’s got an extensive background in journalism, with a science flavour.

I recently wrestled with a title / headline, which he advised on.

I wasn’t initially sold by his argument. But the OpenID as Web3.0 article did pretty good as a result…

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/08/search-engine-optimization-the-art-of-ti.html#comment-591 David Bradley Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:08:00 +0000 http://sv2.mhlists.net/~wwwblah/index.php/2007/08/24/search-engine-optimization-the-art-of-ti/#comment-591 Just a quick thought about headlines. In the mainstream media, headlines are generally not written for online SEO purposes they are written by sub-editors to fit the printed page and to grab the reader's attention. Now, many of the principles subbies apply to headlines apply equally well to online publications and to the aims of SEO/SEM, where the two meet you often get a nice strong keyword-rich headline, but where SEO is an unknown to the headline writer you get the kind of headline that might grab the reader's attention but does nothing for SEO. <br/><br/>As bloggers, we have to balance both to <a HREF="http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/giving-good-head-line.html" REL="nofollow">give good head-line</a> for the sake of readers most importantly but always with an eye to capturing the search engines too.<br/><br/>db Just a quick thought about headlines. In the mainstream media, headlines are generally not written for online SEO purposes they are written by sub-editors to fit the printed page and to grab the reader’s attention. Now, many of the principles subbies apply to headlines apply equally well to online publications and to the aims of SEO/SEM, where the two meet you often get a nice strong keyword-rich headline, but where SEO is an unknown to the headline writer you get the kind of headline that might grab the reader’s attention but does nothing for SEO.

As bloggers, we have to balance both to give good head-line for the sake of readers most importantly but always with an eye to capturing the search engines too.

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