Saturday, 10-Sep-11 23:05:00 CEST

This is not a blog about poverty and how to feed

In webmaster tools of Google you can see what keywords are found on the website. This list of keywords appeared logical to me when I was still at blogger. With the new platform things started to change. There arrived alien words to the top of the keyword list: ‘feed’ and ‘rss’.

‘Feed’ had been found 13471 times. Also they found that I used the word ‘feeding’. ‘RSS’ was found 13465 times. It is true; I used the word feeding on a post about feeding the fire of a raku kiln; for the rest nowhere on the blog until now when I write about this issue.

After a bit of searching I found that I have categories to the right. At this moment there are 36 categories. For each category there is a little feed icon. On Blogger these things were called labels. You can use the feed icon to connect to the feed about that category. That is really clever. Already some of my fans have done so. Whenever I update the category they are interested in they get a message about this. Really clever! The alt tag was saying ‘rss feed for…’ and this is the problem. If I have these feed buttons on every post then these sentences becomes very present in total over the entire blog. But this is an ‘artificial sentence’ to me. I am not talking about feeding so I don’t like this.

I want webmaster tools to reflect what I want and not something that is the result of a blog platform, although I must say I am delighted by BlogEngine.NET so far. It is clever and it is nice all over. I found out that the offending little sentence was originating from a file called ‘CategoryList.cs’. I was able to change it. I removed the alt tag. And it is gone now. That I was able to do this, is so nice, so nice indeed.

So from now on I expect the two alien words to disappear from webmaster tools keywords list. How long will that take?