Creating a new web page to make the Google Gods Happy
Google is like a moody spouse
I call Google
my other spouse because (like it or not) I am married to it; I need Google. I
call her moody because you never really know how your actions will affect your organic
ranking with her.
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| May the Google Gods not get angry with me |
Indeed, at any given time, other competitors
are courting her in order to take my place.
I am constantly fighting these seducers by grooming my content. That said; Google has expressed a willingness
to penalize sites with over optimized content.
Therein lays the confusion; where is the over optimized threshold?
A year ago, I
created a food photography page for my web commercial photography web
site. Visually it looked good, but I
knew it would never rank well. The page was a template I found on the web; it
demonstrated ALT tags nicely, but it was limited in its ability to denote volumes
of written content. Because Google likes
content, this page hindered my ability to communicate and rank well; a change
was required.
So I just
created this new web site.
I did not do anything intentionally to
over optimize. That said, I am put good
stuff in my page’s design to rank well (relevant URL name, meta title, description,
H1 tags, Backlinks, key words, etc). I try to SEO with taste; but I am terrified
that I will piss off Google if I do something wrong!
And indeed I have some content relevant
to two product photography sites, so yes I will shamefully admit that I did recycle some content but
it is truly at a miniscule level.
I lose sleep
at night because I worry that Google may pooh pooh my attempt to signal the search
engines. For example, this article already has two backlinks to the same web site to facilitate the reference. Will I get in
shit from the big guy for back linking it more than once??? Does it look spammy to Google?? Dang if I know!
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