Comments on: A lesson in SEO from Charlie Brooker http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/07/21/a-lesson-in-seo-from-charlie-brooker/ Online journalism news Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:28:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Thomas Hallett http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/07/21/a-lesson-in-seo-from-charlie-brooker/comment-page-1/#comment-6150 Thomas Hallett Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:14:21 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=1605#comment-6150 Of course he'll have the top slot - he writes for a popular blog that people will link to. And there won't be a great deal of competition for such a varied set of key words (unless people like to search for Linday Lohan taking viagra and playing poker?) But in the real world, web writers can't do that. Search engines look for good high-quality links to a web page as well as relevant content on a page. So while you can stuff certain keywords into a web page if you want, you won't get a high ranking unless lots of people look at at the content and then also link to it because they think it's relevant. Unless of course, you don't have any competition from other sites. Right, I'm off to write an article about Mischa Barton taking aspirin while playing Snap... Of course he’ll have the top slot – he writes for a popular blog that people will link to. And there won’t be a great deal of competition for such a varied set of key words (unless people like to search for Linday Lohan taking viagra and playing poker?)

But in the real world, web writers can’t do that. Search engines look for good high-quality links to a web page as well as relevant content on a page.

So while you can stuff certain keywords into a web page if you want, you won’t get a high ranking unless lots of people look at at the content and then also link to it because they think it’s relevant. Unless of course, you don’t have any competition from other sites.

Right, I’m off to write an article about Mischa Barton taking aspirin while playing Snap…

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