I received an email from one of my visitors asking a really strange and funny question. I liked it so much that I thought my visitors would like it also. So I made a poll and came up with four crazy answers sort of like this. Question:
My friend has a bicycle. He swears that he was able to achieve flight after pedaling really, really hard and achieving 120 mph. Is he pulling my leg?
Poll Questions:
1.Yes Jim, he did take flight on that bicycle.
2.Your friend is telling tall tales.
3.Bicycles take flight at 121 mph.
4.Bicycles can’t fly.
The original question was much funnier. The poll got lots of votes and the winning vote was similar to number one, above. I was just having a little fun.
Well with the CMS (Joomla) I use there are about 30 pages (of about 600) on my site that I am having trouble putting meta descriptions on. It has something to do with the components I use and truthfully I have not spent too much time worrying about it because Google tends to grab the first content it sees and uses that in its listings.
Guess what? Since the poll was put on the left hand side it was the first content Google saw and now the description for those thirty pages look like:
Yes Jim, he did take flight on that bicycle…Your friend is telling tall tales…Bicycles take flight at 121 mph…Bicycles can’t fly.
That has nothing to do with the content of the page.
Lessons learned:
1.Fix Meta Descriptions.
2.Be careful with the first content Google sees on a page.
I just wanted to pass this alone and maybe it will help someone avoid some crazy descriptions in Google.
I wonder if this will affect the ranking of those pages?
