How do I get Google to recognize a search for "melophobe" is a search for my webpage "mel.opho.be"?
March 12, 2008 5:11 PM Subscribe
How do I get Google to recognize a search for "melophobe" is a search for my webpage "mel.opho.be"? If you search for "delicious" the first hit is del.icio.us, however if you search for "melophobe" my website is nowhere to be found. It's obviously the top hit in a search for "mel.opho.be" but honestly, people aren't going to be Googling it with the periods. I know there must be a solution, but I'm having a hard time figuring it out.
Response by poster: Perhaps that's what bothers me, because it doesn't seem like del.icio.us does that!
posted by jrholt at 5:20 PM on March 12, 2008
posted by jrholt at 5:20 PM on March 12, 2008
A bunch of people have probably linked to del.icio.us with the word delicious being the link. That's why Google thinks del.icio.us is relevant when people search for delicious.
posted by sveskemus at 5:24 PM on March 12, 2008
posted by sveskemus at 5:24 PM on March 12, 2008
Do you have keyword metatags on your site, and is "melophobe" one of them?
posted by misha at 5:24 PM on March 12, 2008
posted by misha at 5:24 PM on March 12, 2008
A bunch of people have probably linked to del.icio.us with the word delicious being the link. That's why Google thinks del.icio.us is relevant when people search for delicious.
They also own delicious.com, which helps.
posted by null terminated at 5:28 PM on March 12, 2008 [2 favorites]
They also own delicious.com, which helps.
posted by null terminated at 5:28 PM on March 12, 2008 [2 favorites]
Google recognizes usage on the web. You've gotta make the usage happen in the cases of any words you want to be effective as search keywords. As sveskemus points out, delicious is in common usage for del.icio.us. If people aren't already naturally linking to your site using the word melophobe, then your best solution is featuring that word prominently on your own site.
posted by sparrows at 5:31 PM on March 12, 2008
posted by sparrows at 5:31 PM on March 12, 2008
Best answer: I'd:
- Make sure "melophobe" is on your site in some places
- Include "melophobe" in the headers as a meta / keyword (SEO)
- Get people to link "melophobe" to your site. (Maybe even from popular Internet sites.) ;) (Obviously, do this in a tactful way: get friends to link to you that way, include it in your profile on various sites, etc.)
posted by fogster at 6:20 PM on March 12, 2008 [1 favorite]
- Make sure "melophobe" is on your site in some places
- Include "melophobe" in the headers as a meta / keyword (SEO)
- Get people to link "melophobe" to your site. (Maybe even from popular Internet sites.) ;) (Obviously, do this in a tactful way: get friends to link to you that way, include it in your profile on various sites, etc.)
posted by fogster at 6:20 PM on March 12, 2008 [1 favorite]
I might be missing something, but why not call it Melophobe and use melophobe.com instead? People tend to have a hard time remembering where to put the dots in domain hacks - just try searching for de.licio.us and deli.cio.us and de.licio.us to see often people misspell it. (Del.icio.us is shifting over to Delicious and delicious.com in the future...)
posted by dreamyshade at 6:44 PM on March 12, 2008
posted by dreamyshade at 6:44 PM on March 12, 2008
Google's algorithms have "figured out" that a lot of people are looking for del.icio.us when they google delicious because del.icio.us is really popular. So get really popular (at least, more popular than anyone else prominently employing the word "melophobe") and you're set.
Searching melophobe.com gets you there (is the redirect new?), in fact you're the only hit.
Aaaand... searching for melophobe now hits this AskMe thread as the top result. Which is real interesting. I don't suspect you of nefarious intent, mind. It's just an interesting fact of the relative profile of Metafilter as a search factor versus a relatively obscure word.
So you seem set.
posted by nanojath at 7:46 PM on March 12, 2008
Searching melophobe.com gets you there (is the redirect new?), in fact you're the only hit.
Aaaand... searching for melophobe now hits this AskMe thread as the top result. Which is real interesting. I don't suspect you of nefarious intent, mind. It's just an interesting fact of the relative profile of Metafilter as a search factor versus a relatively obscure word.
So you seem set.
posted by nanojath at 7:46 PM on March 12, 2008
fogster's reply should take care of that.
Metafilter: FTFY.
posted by _dario at 3:47 AM on March 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
Metafilter: FTFY.
posted by _dario at 3:47 AM on March 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
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