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Another question Michael...
Posted By: Barry Stein In Response To: Re: Question about Smart Pages (Michael Green)
Date: Saturday, 4 October 2003, at 6:54 a.m.
Hi Michael,
I'm concerned about the following Google guideline and I'd like to get
your feedback."Don't deceive your users, or present different content to search engines
than you display to users."With Smart Pages do you present different content to search engines
than what you are actually displaying to your users?Thanks,
Barry Stein> Hi Barry,
> Actually I'm not technical enough to know the answer to that one either
> Barry - but I've alerted Carlos to this thread so he can get back to us on
> this.> I've heard that said, but I've also heard reports of one-to-one
> conversations where Google have said that what they're really interested
> in is whether the content that a person searching ends up at is relevent
> to their search.> The key thing here is to understand that there's only a point in using
> Smart Pages if you're going to direct people to relevent material. If
> you're thinking of using it for any other purpose - forget it for 3
> reasons:> #1 It would produce misleading results for the person searching.
> #2 Google probably wouldn't rank your terms well, if the content wasn't
> relevant to the search.
> #3 The person isn't going to buy from you if they've been duped into
> finding your page.> We know from a ton of experience from traffic swarm type pages that
> getting traffic to a page is no problem at all. Getting meaningful traffic
> there is quite another matter.> Used properly Smart Page Creator is a *killer* tool and I've posted the
> evidence for this claim at the top of this thread.> To your online success!
> Michael Green
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