Second Life Pros

From the Official Linden Lab blog, some tips for a better search ranking in Second Life.
I loved the post, since it’s very useful and well-written.
My comments on every point (italic is a cut the original):
Keywords Matter – “Think about which words Residents might type to find your listing or products and make sure to include these words in your listing“.
I add: think about the language, and you’ll add precious new words to it.
Phrases Matter – “pool, swim, board, dive” is not as good as “swimming pool, diving board”.
It’s very difficult to guess the right phrase. Spend your time on this …read more

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One of the WORST things in Second Life is search ranking: it reminds me of the early web, in which you could win the first page on Altavista simply adding the same keyword a hundred times. Now SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is much tougher than before, because technics improved, and because there are millions of visitors (and revenues) at stake.
Now Linden Lab decided to improve search rankings (yes, it was time, folks!).
It is just a minor tweak for now, but it’s a sign!!
Also, SL ranking is not as simple as in web pages: in the early days of the web …read more

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