Re: Lowering KW density on 3 word phrases

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:39:47 -0700, catherine yronwode
<claypool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Big Bill wrote:
>>
>> >"Jill L." wrote:
>
>> >> If you currently google for "geriatric consultation agency",
>> >> my ".org" site should be listed first.
>>
>> Actually, what happens is if you do Google for
>>
>> "geriatric consultation agency"
>>
>> then your mention in Google Groups, this thread, comes up.
>>
>> If you Google for
>>
>> geriatric consultation agency
>>
>> then up comes the creative alliance site which I suppose might be
>> you as I couldn't open it.
>>
>> BB
>
>Bill, she said that only .79% of folks couldn;t open her site, due to
>having older browsers -- and here are TWO of us in one newsgroup for
>whom it won't open, both of us search-engine mavens.

I don't believe I'm a maven, Cat, them's girlies. Or even a maeven, as
them's, um, Celtic girlies.

>I have a feeling
>that the figure of .79% is wrong.
>
>Last year i was told that my browser fell into the "15% which new SEO
>pros were ignoring." I thought that was a more accurate number -- and
>also that the attitude expressed was a silly waste of the client's
>money, as any store that turns away 15% of potential customers based on
>the make or model of their car is not going to do as well as the
>all-inclusive store.

Depends on what the site's about. If it's anything up to the minute
and boffo and gee whizz, then potential buyers likely won't be
visiting using Mosaic.

>I know also that Jill's service -- elder care -- is often sought for by
>elders themselves, or by their late-middle-aged children -- in other
>words, folks with older computers. It is rarely searched for by the
>elders' grandchildren with souped up new machines.

I'm using IE6 on 98SE so I'm not modern.

>Case in point: my mother died in October at age 90. Her last computer
>was an IMac G4 running system 9 and Netscape 4.x. If she had died at age
>88, her last cmputer would have been a Macintosh Performa running system
>8.x and Netscape 4.x.
>
>My mother was actively searching for elder care / geriatric service
>management (and finding such services herself) for help with legal
>issues, shopping and house cleaning services, getting rides to hospitals
>for check-ups, daily meal delivery and social support when she broke her
>hip, et cetera -- right up until her final year of life when she began
>to require full-time in-house care.
>
>She and her entire network of elderly, educated Jewish retired women all
>use computers -- most of them gifts from their aging baby boomer
>children -- and most of them use Macs as their kids are in the arts and
>grahics industries.
>
>These older women are not interested in upgrading to newer browsers or
>newer operating systems. They come from the Depression era mentality of
>"use it until it wears out" -- and they want to save money for their
>kids nd grandkids, not waste it buying shiny new toys for themselves. if
>a site won't open for their older browser, they get frustated and move
>on to a lower tech site. They love google and the Guardian newspaper
>online (a world-class news site with low graphics usage that is low tech
>browser compatible), and they also actively use Yahoo Groups for their
>hobby groups (because it is compatible with Netscape 4.x).
>
>Now, here comes Jill with a site that's perfect for these elder to find
>the services they need -- or for their kids to do so and show the to mom
>while at her house, on her computer -- and the site won't open because
>mom has an older browser.
>
>Bad idea.
>
>If any demographic group on Earth needs sites that are older-tech
>friendly, it is geriatric services clients.
>
>Duh.
>
>Cordially,
>
>cat (not quite geriatric myself, yet) yronwode

Nearer than me though, tee-hee!

BB
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