Re Millie's concerns:
Welcome to the wonderful world of search engine algorithmns (I'm not being
sarcastic; it is interesting, atrange and wonderful!) What you are seeing is
progressive technology designed to give you results you can use rather than
results that are useless.
So why do "WDL BLOG", "WDL & Blog" etc get different answers? It has to do with
how the search engine is coded, how the bots run, how often the search engine
spiders, how often the search engine "reorganizes" itself, and a few other
things. If you have an idle week, I can recommend
http://www.searchenginewatch.com to you and you'll find out more about search
engines there than you ever wished to.
Search used to be simple and consistant -- until the "WORK AT HOME AND EARN A
BAZILLION DOLLARS IN TEN MINUTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" En-poopeneurs figured out how
to "game" the search engines and make it so that no matter what you typed their
pages usually came up first. Complaints ensued. The engines began trying to
change their algorithmns to avoid these pages, and the poopreneurs responded by
figuring out what the new algorithmn was all about...and writing high-priced
ebooks to tell other wannabe bazillionaires how to game the system (if I sound
sardonic, I have been both a spam hunter and a scam hunter on Internet for
about 12 years... so I am more than a little weary and sardonic.)
The results change daily... this is called "the Google Dance."
> > >>>I have now secreted the enchanted phrase WDL somewhere on the blog. We
> > probably need to give it a few hours to 'take' at Google.>>>
If you secret it (put it in tiny type or in a typeface the same color as the
background, this will *guarantee* that it won't be picked up. That's one of
the tricks that the poopreneurs use. That hasn't worked for many years.
> > Actually, you should have "WDL" or a phrase incorporating "WDL" in your
> page
> > copy, on any page you are using WDL in the meta tags.
Precisely! You should talk about WDL on every page and mention it frequently.
You will still end up lower in rank than people who pay for the keyword, WDL,
but at least you won't be in 500th place.
-- Mel. White
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