Random song lyrics: Update
Further to my lyrical plan to infiltrate search results by including random song lyrics in my homepage <title> tag, I can report that I am now:
- Number 1 for “I’m not a soldier” (11.1m results)
- Number 1 for “A pocket full of mumbles, such are promises” (19,000 results)
- But only number 6 for “These are the days of miracle and wonder” (5.5m results)
The originally spidered title of “Round here we always stand up straight” has disappeared from the search results, though.
What does it mean?
Well, for a start it means that Google caches multiple versions of each page, and returns different ones depending on (presumably) which server in their secret underground lair server farm your request hits.
I guess you could take advantage of this by presenting randomly generated content in your title, headings and the body of your page, optimised for different search terms; this would increase your likelihood of being ranked highly without overloading your page with content (although on the negative side it would mean that visitors may not be able to find something they saw on the site yesterday).
It may also make the search engines think that your page is being updated extremely frequently – a bonus in their eyes – so again, may improve your rank.
I guess though that if this was a bona-fide optimisation method, SEO experts would already be recommending it, so maybe something bad will happen to me when Google notices what I’m doing… anyone have any experience to suggest how likely this is?
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