Do you ever forget the SEO basics?

[irvingw]

We all get a little sloppy at times. Just yesterday , someone pointed out that I accidentally blocked  the robots from one of our primary pages, because it was being included in a wildcard match on one of the disallow commands in  robots.txt.

Sometimes the mistakes are very basic. The one below is just too funny. I thought I would share the love. Search Google for "MD care"

MD Care Inc. - Welcome<a id="LXPLSS_979677678U1"></a>

<cite>www.mdcarehealthplan.com/</cite>

This is an SEO description that will be seen by the search engines and used in the search results.

The meta keywords tag is even funnier:

<meta name="keywords" content="spam,the,keywords,here,like,this,and this,good" />

[irvingw]

how are you going to noindex a cgi-bin, or scripts, or pdfs you don't want indexed or image folders with the noindex meta though

[ShaMenz]

Call me paranoid, or maybe a control freak, but noindex meta tag is my friend

It's gonna have to be a damned persuasive argument to get me to use robots.txt.

Seen too many disastrous mistakes!

Sha

[irvingw]

Thanks - I am not that bad - I only blocked out one page. I'll just wait until Google comes around.

[KeriMorgret]

The meta keywords does make for a good laugh. Their terms of use also states you need written permission to link to them, which is a bit amusing.

Irvingw, did you see the YouMoz post from two days ago about accidentally noindexing the entire site? You're not alone, and if you need some ideas for getting the site reindexed faster, you might check it out at http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/accidental-noindexation-recovery-strategy-amp-results.