One of us is having a senior moment.

You wrote: "If this was my site we would get rid of the product pages and display all of the color choices on one page."

You sent a link to a product page. I was expecting a link to a psychedelic category page saturated with pictures, colors, content and "buy now" buttons with no links to products.

The Target bread crumbs show a hierarchy and presentation as proposed by Allen.

I get it. And agree. With both of you.

I'd like to see this in action.  Can you share a link EGOL?

I wouldn't spend my time deleting them as its a waste of time since Google ignores them.

If I'm working on SEO or other page elements and want to do some housecleaning I get rid of them.

On all current SEO practices, meta keywords are completely off the to-do list.

And that was a good call. Implemented well too.

Okay. I thought maybe it was a system refresh.

My inbox is filling up with posts from this and other threads right now.

I got one a few minutes ago from a different thread.

We'll see if I get your post.

One of the staffers must have logged me out because after I logged back in is when I received the email from the other thread.

First off, thank you members for your input. Since the dust appears to be settling I want to share my thoughts since I solicited yours.

1. Why the post: Because I believe it matters. We should always be improving our filters to see through the smoke and fog. Consider the audience. People are developing their knowledge and sharpening their skills at something that is difficult to learn and lends itself to shortcuts and gaming. Here's an example this morning of a member trying to tune the quality of his filter.

2. Why the headline: To get eyes on post (see above). In my opinion Rand's credibility was attacked as well as the principles he promotes. Add Edit - it is the first time I've ever seen Rand countered, called out of touch an considered irrelevant. I thought he was a Unicorn.

3. My allegiances: I have none. I don't know VC and I don't know Rand. Aside from his freshness post, I've never read VC's work. My only brush with Rand was a Moz forum smack-down for being unkind to jennita regarding the use of H1's.

4. Regarding VC's post: It lacked focus (it tore down without building up), wreaked of anti-establishment sentiment, smacked of an-axe-to-grind and winked at gaming the system.

5. Regarding best practices: I try to use and promote them and will always lean-in to those who do the same.

Thanks again.

As the poster, I should be getting emails (yes there is a check).

This is the first time I've not gotten emails on a post I generated and since the staff edited the title for clarity, I was wondering if anything else was tweaked.

Hi Jen,

I've not been receiving any email updates for responses submitted. Was that feature turned off for this post or is something amiss in my settings?

I posted a link to Rand's recent Moz Blog in another forum.

One of the users posted a link to this article as a counter point.

Thoughts?

[title edited by staff for clarity]

Sorry Miki but I think it flunks on both counts.

My first impression was (and I suppose still is) that this is a directory of shortcuts to humans (0,0,0).

It was my understanding that if Google is going to give a directory any leniency, it must be discriminatory to some extent.

I don't see anything in terms of discriminating factors.

You're either direct to a person or not. If you've got to press 0 a bunch of times its of no help.

Sorry, but I'll pass on this one.

How does Google process a product page with description tabs?  For example, lets say the product page has a tab for Overview, Specifications, What's In the Box and so on.

Wouldn't that content be better served in one main product description tab with the tab names used as (htags) or highlighted paragraph separators?

Or, does all that content get crawled as a single page regardless of the tabs?