Google search - Text under link

[NoteMe]

Not sure if this is the best place to ask. But when a search engine searches for my page. How does it append text to the link when it presents search results? Can I add the text my self in anyway? At the moment it is just the window title.


http://www.google.no/search?hl=en&q=...me&btnG=Search

[NoteMe]

I can see that MSN search is adding more though. It reads all the links on the top og my page:


http://search.msn.no/results.aspx?q=noteme&FORM=QBHP



PS: By saerching on "NoteMe" 7/8 of the first links on MSN seach engine is me, and only 8/20 on google..

[CornedBee]

Do you mean the "excerpt" of the page? It just takes the places where it found the search terms and a bit of text around it. Or, if it doesn't find the search terms within the text, it'll take the first bit of text it finds on the page.

I doubt you can modify this behaviour.

[NoteMe]

Actualy I woke up this night, 2 hours after I went to bed and realized the exactly same thing.....hehe....well it still would have been great though. Well I guess it is a kind of resolved. Thanks CB.



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[Electroman]

Actually its the "description" META tag that it uses when it doesn't find the text in the actual page

<meta name="description" content="..::NoteMe | DxMe::.." />

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[NoteMe]

Actually its the "description" META tag that it uses when it doesn't find the text in the actual page

<meta name="description" content="..::NoteMe | DxMe::.." />

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I have a LOT of words in the content "property", but it doesn't look like Google or MSN bot reads it at all.


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[CornedBee]

Modern bots tend to ignore this information due to abuse.

[NoteMe]

Yeah it looks like it. And probably because it isn't updated as often as the contents of the pages anyway. So it doesn't reflect the content of the page well enough.

Well well. Guess I can write a lot of nonnsense right behind my main div so no one else then the bots can see it...


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[CornedBee]

Well well. Guess I can write a lot of nonnsense right behind my main div so no one else then the bots can see it...

Except that someone or something might report you as a bot deceiver, and then you get a big penalty.

[Electroman]

I have a LOT of words in the content "property", but it doesn't look like Google or MSN bot reads it at all.


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I looked at the source of your page and thats what i got, just "..::NoteMe | DxMe::.." in the content property, for the "description" META tag anyway


EDIT: You have lots of words in the "keywords" META tag but not the "description" one .

[NoteMe]

Except that someone or something might report you as a bot deceiver, and then you get a big penalty.

Ohhh....didn't know it was illigal....well why don't we just give up on this then..




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[NoteMe]

I looked at the source of your page and thats what i got, just "..::NoteMe | DxMe::.." in the content property, for the "description" META tag anyway


EDIT: You have lots of words in the "keywords" META tag but not the "description" one .

Stop picking on me....I have no idea why. But this was what I had...

<meta name="Author" content="NoteMe" /> 
		<meta name="keywords" content="noteme notemeagain tutorial tutorials directx dx texture textures images pictures d3d ddraw" />
		<meta name="description" content="..::NoteMe | DxMe::.." />