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Lardhoc Aewheros

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Top guild finds in google
« on: October 24, 2004, 08:47:54 pm »
A search for planeshift+guild in google gave:

1. The Forsaken
2. Ghosts
3. Ordo Illuminatis
4. The Blitzers Guild
5. The Blitzers Guild, again
6. A search result for The Forsaken (just hates when i find search tresults)
7. Sons of the Serpent
8. planeshift.it Guild Rules
9. planeshift.it Player\'s Guide
10. Explorers Guild
11. Rangers Guild
12. Explorers Guild, again
13. Legendary Warriors
14. Arcane Order (Way too low :))
15. Mercenary Guild
16. A bio for Natrina of Bloodclaw Inc. at Ladygamers.com
17. Kada\'s Tavern\'s list of PS Guilds
phew... Feel free to continue the list if you want.

I don\'t know how interesting this is but I find it strange that the Forsaken is on top.
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« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2004, 01:27:14 am »
Yeah, and Ghost is long gone too...
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« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2004, 04:44:30 am »
It all has to do with meta tags my friends... it doesn\'t matter how many times the site is visited or how old the guild is.
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« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2004, 04:49:47 am »
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15. Mercenary Guild


 I like 15th result. 15th result is much better than 1st result. Yeah. Much better.
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« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2004, 04:54:56 am »
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It all has to do with meta tags my friends... it doesn\'t matter how many times the site is visited or how old the guild is.


What the hell is a Meta Tag? O.o
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« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2004, 12:35:08 pm »
Meta tags are codes inserted in a web site that makes the page easier to find, due to some keywords. It\'s often used as a little cheating way to be 1st in search engines as google.
 Here you go an example:




 The thing is that they\'re useless, unless you register your web site in the google database, or at any other search engine.
 PS - To view the code of a web site, let\'s say with IE -> go to View -> Source.
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« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2004, 12:40:00 pm »
I try to get rid of metatags. Otherwise my school firewall blocks them as soon as it reads \'game\' \'guild\' etc.
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« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2004, 01:04:40 pm »
really? Interesting firewall.

Yeah, meta names can be annoying. Makes google look slow.
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Lardhoc Aewheros

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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2004, 04:05:10 pm »
Talking about cheating... Have you tried pressing control+A at the intro page with the flash-movie for planeshift? If you do you see several important \"invisible\" keywords in many combinatons at the top. :)
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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2004, 05:34:12 pm »
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Talking about cheating... Have you tried pressing control+A at the intro page with the flash-movie for planeshift? If you do you see several important \"invisible\" keywords in many combinatons at the top. :)


Because they are using Meta Tags they are cheating  ?(
Personally I am usually just to lazy to use them myself lol.
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« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2004, 05:39:16 pm »
1st of all, I really don\'t think this has anything to do with the Guilds Forums.
 2nd:
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 I really don\'t think why they put those words in the \"font\" code. Also CTRL+A = Select all, that\'s why those words appear my dear :)
 Ah, well, maybe they wanted the words be on the 1st page to be found easily by google :D (I mean, all the worlds they wanted to be found with).
 Anyway, nice way of hiding them ;)

 EDIT - I used that too on the old Black Order web site :P
 EDIT II - Err, this is not \"cheating\". It\'s just a fair way to promote something. So calm down ;)
« Last Edit: October 25, 2004, 05:43:15 pm by Annah »
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« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2004, 05:41:19 pm »
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Talking about cheating... Have you tried pressing control+A at the intro page with the flash-movie for planeshift? If you do you see several important \"invisible\" keywords in many combinatons at the top. :)


Because they are using Meta Tags they are cheating  ?(
Personally I am usually just to lazy to use them myself lol.

He\'s not refering to the tags ;) ...there\'s text on that page in the same colour as the background - true, that is a dirty old trick, but then again, that also IS the first page of the homepage, and should have on it what\'s it all about ...although I would like to see it in a nicer way :(

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ah, Annah, beat me to it :P
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« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2004, 05:51:39 pm »
My bad I didn\'t even check lol. Thought he was just looking at the Meta Tagging but it is the same concept and yeah don\'t really see how it is cheating.  ;)
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« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2004, 07:49:58 pm »
I didn\'t think google relied on meta tags so much, rather on other pages being linked to the page in question.
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« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2004, 09:46:50 pm »
I thought it was given that I of course knew that the text was invisible because it had the same colour as the background. And of course ctrl+A is \"select all\", do you think I thought it was some secret command. I am not eight years you know. :)

And I agree with hook, it is a dirty old trick that shouldn\'t be used! Everyone should instead have a good informative text about their site on the first page. But we are getting away from the topic...

Actually, The Forsaken have no -tags with keywords at all while The Arcane Order has excellent keywords with both \"planeshift\" and \"guild\" and has much more members  but is much lower on the list. So it\'s not \"all in the meta-tags\" at all! I am beginning to distrust search-motors. :)
« Last Edit: October 25, 2004, 10:03:50 pm by Lardhoc Aewheros »
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