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Yeah, I know that Search Engine Optimization is all the rage, and that keywords are key, and that you gotta do what you gotta do to drive traffic to your site and push up your click rates and bring all those new peeps to your blog, but Popular Tag marginalia like this one...



...on Slate's Trailhead page -- and that image is only a little less than half of it -- is really starting to get on my nerves.

Never mind that they look like something your five-year-old whipped up the first time he used a word processor. Never mind that a large part of your web page ends up looking like some demented political or pop-cultural eye chart. And never mind that some of the combinations (Chuck Norris conference; Death Watch debate; Huckabee ice cream) read like LSD-Trip, fever-dream word association exercises. Let's just consider instead that, when you place these things on your web page, you may as well be hanging a banner that reads I'm an internet whore, and this is just one of the mindless, shameless ways I try to seduce you.

Posted: Thu - April 17, 2008 at 04:16 PM          

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