I’ve been developing a couple of websites now and thought I’d share some of the observations I made along the way. Feel free to state your opinion as well.

First of all, I’ve never ever seen the meta tag “keywords” ever matter. Never. The “Description” tag matters, in the sense that Google will pick it up to describe what the page or the website you have published is all about.

When you have a couple of ad-based websites, you can easily get obsessive over how to best drive quality traffic to them. By quality traffic I mean visits from people that was actually looking for what you had to say or the products you sell/services you offer. In pursuing this, we’ve all come to realize the importance of the <title> tag, the <h1> tag, and of course the off site elements; the quality back-links. The latter being the most important of all.

Anyways, in all of this I have played around with changing/tweaking the keyword meta tag but it has never given me any visible benefits. On the other hand, it has never given me any grief either so for most of the sites I manage, I keep them there. Nice and clean.

Except for this site. This site has no meta keywords, and if you got here via Google or some other search engine looking for information on what to do with your meta keyword tags, then all the better. It proves my point.

I’d be more than happy to hear from anyone who have had similar or opposite experiences in this area.

Ever since early spring I’ve been really lazy in updating my webspace. Sure, I’ve been working a lot and also keeping PurposeGames going, but still there was something else keeping me from doing it.

I’ve found - not surprisingly - that if I find something to not be completely to my liking, like the former look and layout of this website, I sort of just leave it be until I get the time to really do something about it.

Well, now is that time. I’m very pleased with the fact that I got my PurposeGame of the day-snippet to work. You should see it to the right of this text.

Let’s see if this will mean more frequent updates and posts to this website by me. I hope so because selfishly enough I feel I’m missing 5-10 good ideas per day just because I don’t write them down somewhere persistent. Like this place.

Someone said to me the other day that in order to keep your blog alive and interesting, you need to update it six times a day! Wow. How about that?
Obviously someone who does that is either paid to write or very new at blogging (when things are new and shiny, you tend to wanna spend more time with that than anything else).

Anyway, I updated PurposeGames the other night and I’m so far very happy with the result. Sure, some bugs here and there but all in all I think it adds to the fun of the site and I find myself spending more time there myself also, which is always a good sign in software - being your own most enthusiastic user.