Keyword Confetti: Go F*ck Yourself
Posted by Daniel Lyons Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:02:00 GMT
If someone searches for something and winds up on your site, does it look like this?
This is completely unreadable. Like probably over 95% of visitors to your site, I showed up because I made a google query and you said something relevant about it. Instead of being able to read it, I’m staring at goddamn keyword confetti. You just cornholed my eyes. Google told me you had great stuff to share with me about whatever it is I’m searching for, but you decided to impress me with your HTTP_REFERER parsing rather than just giving me the goddamn content.
If I want to see the keywords highlighted, I’ll use Google Toolbar or I’ll search with my browser. As an actual user of the internet, I can and do read. Often. You do not have to mangle the layout for people who do not read.
I don’t know who started this fad, but they need to take a little lead in the face.
I think maybe you just don’t understand simPLICity.
You know what else is annoying (though not as visually awful)? Pages that sniff your Google keywords, then give you the results of their internal search page with your page. Fuckers, your search isn’t better than Google!
I’m sure that some sites are doing this by hand, or with some awesome metadata they have sitting around, but most of them are just hitting grep/htdig/google(!) for it.