Your comment scores 98% on my spam detector.

stanley · on Dec 21, 2008

Haha, I can see why you would say that. What I was trying to convey was that from an SEO standpoint, your site fails miserably. You need to change your title tags to be more keyword specific, and move your wiki to a subdirectory instead of a subdomain (same goes for the blog).

axod · on Dec 21, 2008

Fails miserably??

#1 on google for 'mibbit' (obviously)

#2 on google for 'web irc', 'online irc client', 'web irc client', 'web based irc', 'irc web', 'irc web client', 'web based irc client', etc etc

#9 on google for 'irc client', (Only mirc and xchat beat it).

This is all without doing any SEO. Sure there are ways to improve it, but it's more important to improve it for users, than for search engines.

Glad you like it though :)

stanley · on Dec 21, 2008

SEO is not just about ranking for a handful of keywords, it's about ranking for the million other searches that aren't as popular.

Well, either way you're obviously against taking any advice so I won't waste any of my time trying to help you. Good luck with your service.

axod · on Dec 21, 2008

Sure, and I appreciate the advice, but it's not rocket science.

I already have http://www.mibbit.com/networks/ (Work in progress) which is a complete browsable list of networks and channels, with topic info etc etc. As well as being hugely useful for users, it's obviously useful for ranking on searches. For example, if someone searches for "freenode", mibbit has some good results there.

A solid example: Search google for "freenode javascript". Mibbit is result number 3. I'm happy with that...

I repeat. SEO is not rocket science, it's simple best practices for end users.