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02-29-2008, 06:56 PM
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| Smurf  Join Date: Feb 2008
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 |  Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? Hi everyone, I've always been taught that the standard phrase, "Welcome to My Site!" or "Welcome to Widgets R Us" is bad form for SEO. I never write home page content that begins with this phrase. I mean, it's obvious you're on the site, right? So it seems redundant at the least. Now I have a client who is insisting I use it and I really want to show her why it's a bad way to begin the Home Page. But no matter how much I search I can't find anything to back up my argument. Am I wrong on this point? Victoria |
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03-01-2008, 06:11 PM
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| iWEBTOOL Moderator Contributor Join Date: Oct 2006
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|  Re: Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? You will not be penalised, nor will you gain from that phrase.It has absolutly nothing to do with SEO. Though from a visitors point of view it is not considered a good phrase. |
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03-02-2008, 08:02 AM
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| MVP Runner-up 2006 Contributor Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Antwerpen / Belgium
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| Re: Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? Quote:
Why is that Midlandi ?
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03-02-2008, 12:15 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Scandinavia
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| Re: Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? "Welcome to my site" reeks of a home made website, but "Welcome to Widgets R Us" should be alright? I wouldn't use "wecome to" in the title tag. If you search for "welcome to" in google you will get 426.000.000 hits... If you search for "welcome to my site" in google you will get 579.000 hits...
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03-03-2008, 06:10 AM
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 |  Re: Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? If you want to use it in title then I think it is not good. Better you should use other text. Visitor is already on your website then why this word? India News |
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03-03-2008, 07:53 AM
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| Re: Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? I guess you shouldn't worry too much about such silly things. If your client really want to have it, let her be. |
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03-04-2008, 01:05 PM
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| Re: Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? I disagree. I think Welcome Too is a nice introduction. You wont gain or lose as midlandi said, but its all about how you want to do it, but personally, I like it.
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03-12-2008, 02:52 AM
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| Smurf Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Italy
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| Re: Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? I think "Welcome" sound polite rather than obvious. They always say it on TV shows. |
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03-13-2008, 12:02 AM
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| Re: Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? welcome page usually required for some adult site.... lol... |
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03-13-2008, 12:57 AM
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| Re: Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? Agree with VPM. reaks of home made site. "Welcome to my site" but others are ok. Quote:
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04-01-2008, 06:07 AM
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| Smurf Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: India
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| Re: Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? It's okay to use in home page,nothing wrong in it. Make sure you do not use welcome in title and use less amount of flash in creating welcome page. Most of the websites use too much flash in welcome page,which is not good from SEO point of view. |
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04-02-2008, 06:39 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007
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| Re: Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? Welcome to my site is an ordinary line you've seen everywhere on the net. In SEO perspective proper use of anchor will help your site because your are targetting what you site is about through your anchor text... |
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04-02-2008, 06:51 AM
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| Re: Using 'Welcome to My Site" Is Bad Form? I think google will skip it,because so many site use this phrase. |
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