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Better descriptions - Bish0pQ - 11-29-2017

Hello everyone,

I should've included this in my last thread, but if that is a problem, one of the mods please let me know and I'll merge them.
So I recently noticed that when you search for "Sinister.ly" in search engines you don't really get a proper description about what the forum is about. First impressions are important and I think some of the descriptions are misleading.

Google Search (worst result)
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Bing result:
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People might think this forum is about graphics design the way it stands there.

On my phone, it is Mr.Kurd that is in the description, displaying as a link to his profile. While I have nothing against Mr.Kurd, it could be used more efficiently. I don't know whether this is something you can change or that it's crawled and created by the search engine itself, but it might bring in some extra members.

RE: Better descriptions - mothered - 11-29-2017

Meta tags/Meta description, determine how the forum's description appears In the search results.

The first thing I did on my board, was add the keywords In the meta description and as such, It's Indexed with only my selected keywords.

RE: Better descriptions - Bish0pQ - 11-29-2017

(11-29-2017, 11:48 AM)mothered Wrote: Meta tags/Meta description, determine how the forum's description appears In the search results.

The first thing I did on my board, was add the keywords In the meta description and as such, It's Indexed with only my selected keywords.

I know, the thing is the way it looks now, it doesn't look really proffesional (no offense Oni).

RE: Better descriptions - Slacker - 11-29-2017

It's the third search result for the actual weird sinisterly as well I was impressed

RE: Better descriptions - Slacker - 11-29-2017

Though a proper description would help with gaining traffic it's still impressive for it to be to three good job on that @Oni

RE: Better descriptions - Synthx - 11-29-2017

I agree with you. I feel like if I were to search lets just say youtube, and their description says "We do not allow for people to post porn", and it got shortened to "We do... to post porn" I wouldn't go there. I'm not saying that things are getting cut off, like said, first impressions are best.

RE: Better descriptions - mothered - 11-29-2017

(11-29-2017, 12:10 PM)Bish0pQ Wrote: I know, the thing is the way it looks now, it doesn't look really proffesional (no offense Oni).

I understand what you mean.

We'll see what @Oni has to say.

RE: Better descriptions - Skullmeat - 11-29-2017

I second this, the search needs meta tags. However there might be a reason we dont have them.

RE: Better descriptions - phyrrus9 - 11-29-2017

I agree, should probably do some SEO revamps....
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