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Posted By:
SportsGuy
239 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.billhartzer.com)
Category: Google Other
Hardly - just something nifty that could really make you organic listing jump off the page!
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I am amazed that stuff isn't filtered out somewhere in their system.
Wow. This is really interesting actually. Properly applied, it could be used to get some decent attention to your search result, even if it's not #1. I wonder if it works on adwords...
I first thought this was pretty amazing - but I cant replicate the results - me thinks this is an April fools post...
if not - please drop a link to the search results...
Placing special characters in the description (and title) tag is nothing new.
I've experimented with it some time ago. I couldn't get Google to show a special character at the beginning of the description tag, because it was completely ignored, but everywhere else they worked nice.
I think it's better to use this as formatting (e.g. breaking up the text, arranging it a little bit), not as getting the "look-at-me-how-ugly-I-am" kind of attention.
rishilakhani, the link to the Google SERPs is below...not sure how much longer it will show up in the SERPs because that actual page on Mixx has been changed. But as of this post, it's still there:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.mixx.com/users/&hl=en&safe=off&start=20&sa=N
OK I take my previous comment back - I saw i - its on page 4 in UK - excellent find.