Nov
20
Hidden stair access followup
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On Nov. 6th a post was done on hidden stair access concerning how to tell how competitive phrases are for search results. What’s interesting is that there was a link to the Google search for it in a Search Engine Watch thread, and PhilC also did a commentary on the hidden stair access competive issue at his forum, which can be found linked to from the Google Search result for the phrase, as well as on his blog. I always enjoy reading Phil’s comments and analysis, he’s got a very realistic approach in his thinking and assesses matters from a logical, analytic stance.
Two weeks later, there’s some interesting analysis to be done about how and why the results have shifted around the way they have during the elapsed time.
Nov
6
How competitive: temporary stair access. Huh? Say what?
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Yet another interesting discussion ensues about how to assess how competetive a search phrase is, in an older thread at Search Engine Watch Forums that was bumped and reactivated this week, in which there seems to be a difference of opinion on how competitive the phrase temporary stair access is, which comes up as an example for some strange reason.
I totally fail to see what that sub-topic has to do with the original topic of the thread, which is essentially asking about keywords in domain names, but it ends up raising again a topic that’s critical to search engine promotion, particularly in the planning stages of websites, when keyword phrases are chosen and the site’s architecture and navigation are planned out prior to going into the design and production phrases of development.
IMHO too little attention is paid to that detail, which can later on prove detrimental to not only the search engine placement of a site, but with regard to conversion factors as well.