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Technology Reviews
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Webmasters Comment
Written for humans or robots? Poor
Quality Web Sites - 16 April 2010
It seems these days that
everyone has gone content and keyword crazy!
Ask yourself this question...What percentage of web pages on the
Internet have been honestly written with the
visitors needs in mind? How many of them do you estimate
were written with one thing and one thing only in mind
- to win the favour of the gargantuan Google web
bots?
I spend a lot of time on quality
issues when adding content to my web pages.
I am diligent with accuracy - spelling, punctuation and
grammar.
So many computer-related web
sites are sacrificing this content quality and instead spending
their time
pandering to the Google-bots. Positioning words carefully
within sentences - not because the author cares
a tweet about the readers experience, but because they need to
get their keyword density just right in
order to make it onto the next page up in the Google search
results.
To me, as a well read, educated
intellectual reading pages such as these is a painful
experience.
Visiting any web page these days is all about the webmaster
trying to win my trust and imparting to
me a nice warm feeling - a feel-good factor.
Increasingly web masters are
more concerned with statistical factors of their pages such as
keyword density,
tonnes of links to all and sundry, and a plethora of
attention-grabbing, flickering icons, pulsating pixels
and flashing advertisements. The default fonts deployed on
their pages are often so tiny, one sometimes thinks
ones browser has contracted a shrink virus! I lean forward
towards my monitor in an an attempt to focus on
the tiny hairlines of text. My eyeballs are so close to the
screen that I can feel them drying out and
cracking with the heat and radiation from the screen;
Suddenly a popup! Brilliant white flashes and
fireworks,
strobing effects - and in a nanosecond I am transported into a
nightclub on acid rave night!
Subconsciously my arm (at the
end of which is a mouse) slides off in a North Easterly direction
with a desperate
but firm resolve, searching for my blissful closure to this
harrowing episode, the little red square with a
white cross. As I voluntarily click, I also involuntarily
blink my eyes. When they are opened and refocused
I am dumbfounded at what I see. The trance-inducing popup
window has moved as effortlessly as an ice puck to
the south westerly region of my screen.
Arrrgh!
I try in vain to remember why it
was I visited this site to begin with. Luckily for me and
my sanity I possess
ample technical skills to deal with this kind of intrusion on my
personal space - the blessed CONTROL-ALT-DELETE
key sequence - locate the browser application - end task.
Gone. Forever.
I am praying (amazing really
because I am not normally the religious type) for that glorious
day in the future
to arrive soon. That wonderful day when web sites of this
ilk are relegated by the search and indexing bots
to some far off corner of hyperspace. When again I can
relax and read intriguing human-oriented content on
web page after web page.
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