So, funny thing: this morning, I was looking to see if VTech had finally gotten around to releasing an update for its cordless VTech phones with respect to making them Vista compatible, so I googled “vtech skype vista support”, because I’m too lazy to sort through their own site. You might recall me ranting about why Vista enrages me, and using the lack of drivers / support one of my chief beefs. Anywhoo, I thought perhaps another site had found a solution, perhaps someone blogged about it. Funny thing was that my own rant ranked #7 on the google search

So I am showing you this not just to show off that this blog has ranking for some pretty obscure terms, but that blog post on my blog outranks VTech itself when it comes for what I think is a relevant search term. I am only casual observer for SEO topics, but looks like a clear example where VTech needs a hand — not just in terms of being the right one to rank for the appropriate topic, but from a public relations point of view, as well.

In fact, VTech has solved the problem as of a few weeks ago, as it did release a new software update so that its now Vista compatible, with the page in question over here.

[edit: or, over here where "VTech released a Vista compatible update for their Skype phones" -- VTech, please thank Andy Beard by sending him something (like a free phone, maybe?) after the exchange I had with him below]

Where is does that page rank in the scheme of things? Well, nowhere to be honest. Why is this important? Only because about a year ago VTech made some noises about never releasing an update that would work with Vista machines, which have been (obviously) received quite negatively.

Chalk one up under “why SEO is important”, I think.