Optimising post content on invision power board for search engine description.

As a strong believer that meta description doesn’t really help your ranking on popular search engines, I recently got whipped really hard by not having meta description. This is really not making any of my post on my demo board for minerva seo appear content relevant, thus forcing me to add them, which I am not going to.

I am not going to because I know what google and other search engines are looking for, and that is the paragraph tag, yes that right, the <p> tags. So what I did is add this simple p tag in the post content to tell the search engines that it is the content of the page.

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This is the best magazine I ever subscribed to.

Today I just received my first edition of Illustrator Techniques and with the Magazine I got a small booklet for first time subscriber which has all illustrator techniques you may ever need to know.

photo of illustrator techniques mag

The content of the mag is quite limited but quality of the guides is just excellent. There are no advertisement, the content of the mag is full of tutorial.

I wish this mag was released every week or the usual subscription time but with a whole lot of content and tutorials be it small or big with a lot of illustration. But this is still really good.

Hiding your board stats does influences first time users to navigate deeper.

Hiding posts, topic and member count does influences first time visitors to actually navigate. For one it takes their eyes off the number and to the actual content which is nice.

For example like alltopix they hid their post and topics stats. But limited the user activity. Which is quite an effective way of telling users limited detail but still influencing them.

When you do visit that site it just makes you feel to go view it and actually read something. This feeling of exploration should be on every website that want to succeed.
how to do it?

Well depending which software you have you would need to locate the template section holding the html for each forum row and edit out the statistical information. If they are <td.. tags we might need to add colspan into the td tags so that it doesn’t break, it all depends on the design though…

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Here is another color plate for you to use. This is a good color combination if you want to make a dark blue colored theme.

After a brawl on digg.com today it’s pretty sad to see that the users on digg don’t give a fuck about digg’s existence at all. Yeah sure everyone was mad when digg staff had to step in and moderate it’s sites content to save there ass over a cease and desist letter.

But surely the digg users don’t give a fuck and don’t want to understand why, and just want to allow that illegal content to be displayed. And to prove the point that digg staff do moderate the content where they shouldn’t.

This left kevin not much choice then just to allow it to go or to loose a fairly substantial user base.

more info: http://blog.digg.com/

We should stop forcing or tricking search engines to read un-useful content

The main reason why I think we should try prevent search engines to read unuseful content would be because that isn’t going to help the search engine helping the searches who are looking for something. Instead of focusing our effort on making pages ranked up over some small tutorial we should be improving the quality of our content. We should be writing content which is useful to users who are looking for something.

Wouldn’t you want to find something which is relevant to your search query on the first result everytime? This is what google and other search engines are trying to do, present the most relevant content to the user. It’s all about content being displayed and understandable to both bots and users.

So whenever you want to increase SEO on a tutorial or content you made, ask yourself this question “Is it useful and relevant enough and could it help other users?” then you may think about optimising your pages to make search engines more aware of your content and keywords about your website.

So you should always think about the users first and google gods may recognise your content and rank it highest on your keywords.