For example, if you’ve made a world building religion generator, and you title it “The Arch Bible” or something like that (i.e. something that’s more of a “brand” than a “description”), then people won’t be able to use a web search engine to find it unless they already know its name. In other words, people don’t search for “The Arch Bible” when they want to find a religion generator - they of course search something like “fantasy religion generator” or whatever - so make sure you put keywords like that in your $meta.title/$meta.description if you want to make it easy for others to find it.
Search engines heavily weight the page title in their search, so it definitely pays to have a $meta.title which appropriately summarizes what your generator does in a few words. It’s fine to have something like “Fantasy Religion Generator - The Arch Bible” as your title - i.e. a description, plus a “brand”. Just don’t leave out the key descriptive terms.
I’m writing this post because I don’t think people realize how the “popular” generators on Perchance actually tend to get popular - it’s one of two things:
- (rare & temporary) The generator happened to go viral on social media somehow.
- (common & long-term) The generator’s title and/or description was descriptive, and so random people around the world each day hit their page via a Google search, which can add up to thousands of visitors in just a few months if it’s a popular “topic” that people search for.
Popular generators almost always get popular via #2, and #2 often eventually leads to #1 - i.e. people find it via a search engine, and then share it with their friends on social media, and then at some point (for whatever reason) it goes viral. I think people tend to incorrectly assume that #1 is the main factor in a generator’s popularity (it can be, but it’s rare).
TL;DR: Use appropriate descriptive terms in your title and description if you’d like your generator to become well known. Think about the sorts of keywords that people would type into a search engine to find your generator.
Now a few days later:
I first tried ‘playin da game’ and retitled Beautiful People to be SEO competitive and called it something like FREE AI ART GENERATOR with that causing the title in the tab to look just slightly more like an ad instead of a beautiful thing. And I noticed I went from 200 to 400 views per day down to 200 per day. I believe it is a combination of the title looking less beautiful in the tab and a discovery I will mention later. Next I looked up Beautiful Perchance and was very very happy when Beautiful People came up as the very first result. That is exactly what I want. It may mean basically nothing as far as influx of people via search results, but I love beautiful things and ‘Beautiful’ being my word in relation to Perchance warms my heart to the tips of my toes. So then I saw how google did not just cut off long titles, (internet research says 50 characters), but also descriptions (120). My description is now 118 and title is 49. If you use a tool to do your wordlengths, you should use BluePower’s imo because that’s supportive. Which brings me back to what I have noticed, which is that, on a google search, Beautiful-People still shows up on google with it’s old title and description as seen above. This then explains why views per day went down instead of up when I changed the title to something that would in theory catch SEO better but looked more adlike. Does anyone know how long it takes for google to recrawl an individual perchance page for title and description changes to take effect on SEO? I have since found what I believe is a happy medium on the title of Beautiful-People which is beautiful for the first half of the title which is visible in the tab and only includes the adlike marketingfeely stuff afterward. On both Desktop and Mobile I can only see the beautiful part.
Anyway, that was my journey in to it so far, with some advice, a question, and an interesting realization that the part important TO ME as far as search results is not necessarily being top of a popular competitive word but, instead, a word I specifically resonate extrastrongly with. Perhaps the same will be true for you.
Yeah, I don’t even realize that my Character Counter Lab can be used as a tool to determine how many characters/letters it has on an input. 😆
As with the search results, I have changed the description of the counter lab page a few days ago, and yet, on that it still hasn’t changed since. Maybe we need to wait for a couple more days or a couple weeks. I’ve also very recently changed the title to add the (original) part after the Counter Lab text after seeing a copy being displayed below it.
aaaand woke up today and had gone up 200 views just in a few hours during the middle of the night and found it curious. gone up nearly 400 already and it’s not even 1pm so i looked on google and sure enough the SEO updated. So IMO it is indeed totally noticeable switching from not caring about seo to making something good seowise. highly recommend. and it seems to have taken maybe 4 days to update on google