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11/28/2001 Entry: "28-Nov-2001 -- The Anti-Thesaurus"

The Anti-Thesaurus -- "Proposal: there should be a metadata standard allowing webmasters to manually decrease the relevance of their pages for specific search terms and phrases."

Replies: 3 comments

Excellent suggestion, although I doubt it'd get used much.

I've had clients ask me to add keywords such as "Britney Spears" and "XXX" to their sites to boost traffic. The fact that visitors looking for such content almost certainly won't be interested in their site and will merely cost them money in bandwidth & equipment doesn't seem to matter.

Posted by Matt Round @ 11/28/2001 09:07 AM EST

Matt, you've got some stupid clients... but don't we all :)? How do you respond to such requests? Do you have your face in a knot in utter contempt :)? I know I would... Or do you ask your client if their target market is pimply computer geeks surfin' nekkid and stoned in front of their computer at 3:00 in the morning :)?

Posted by Francis @ 11/28/2001 09:31 AM EST

I'm not pimply!

Posted by mick @ 11/28/2001 09:54 AM EST

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