I’ve been going through the language around my songs: the words in the lyrics, the descriptions on their pages, and the phrases that appear in searches and social-platform discovery tools.
There are two different questions in that work. Does a phrase describe the song honestly? And is there evidence that people search for it? A good answer to the first doesn’t automatically answer the second.
For Moderate or Good, phrases such as “Shipping Forecast song” and “Radio 4 nostalgia song” fit the recording. Those descriptive keywords are now present in its page metadata. That tells me the wording has been implemented. It doesn’t tell me how many people search for it, or whether it will bring anyone to the song.
I’ve also improved KeywordMoves so that a phrase extracted from source text can be traced back to wording that actually appears together. That matters when a tool removes small words and accidentally makes two separated words look like a phrase. The new route preserves literal spans and handles Unicode text, including Persian joining characters.
The review covered 57 songs and 12 agreed search and social platforms, recording usable samples and access gaps separately. Google Trends indices, Search Console exposure, provider estimates and words found in captions measure different things. I haven’t turned them into one popularity score, and a source returning nothing usable stays unavailable rather than becoming zero demand.
The page update is now published. EPK Social Metadata 1.2.0 adds concise descriptive keyword lists and matching Schema.org properties. It also fills 16 missing recording durations where the exact public audio provides the evidence, and supplies missing cover dimensions from the existing upload. Unknown facts remain omitted.
Google doesn’t use HTML meta keywords for indexing or ranking. The clearer descriptions and accurate metadata are useful housekeeping; I haven’t measured a ranking benefit from these changes.
The next useful step is better demand evidence: first-party search queries, the actual search terms that lead people to videos, and properly scoped related or rising trends. I’ll need a settled period after the changes before comparing outcomes. More words in a database won’t answer that question on their own.
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