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Re: Skip links and SEO

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From: Nelson-Brooks, Carolyn
Date: May 2, 2007 9:50AM

The irs.gov website is a perfect example where the skip links are very
helpful for me. Imagine sorting for a particular form and having to go
through loads of other information just to get to where you're trying to
go on a webpage --- quite annoying, huh?


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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Michael R.
Burks
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:40 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Skip links and SEO

Yes!

Even if you can see the links it is often good to be able to skip the
"garbage". I have seen pages that have several skip links to various
portions of the page, and that can be quite helpful!

For me this can make the page much more usable.

Mike Burks

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Nelson-Brooks, Carolyn
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:35 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Skip links and SEO

Hi all,

I agree with Michael and probably others of you who like the skip links.
What is the problem with making life a little easier for us who don't
want to hear all the garbage on the screen when you can just skip all of
that and save time.


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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Michael R.
Burks
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:33 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Skip links and SEO


Why hide the skip links at all?

I find them useful.

Others may as well. Or are we only building pages that cater to one
disability?

Sincerely,
Mike Burks





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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of ben morrison
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Skip links and SEO

On 5/2/07, Karl Groves < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> First, hidden text *does* work from an SEO standpoint. That's not the
issue
> It is frowned upon not because it will hurt your rankings but because
Google
> will out-and-out delist your site if they discover the hidden text.

We are after all only talking about a few hidden skiplinks, so I'm sure
those clever folk at google could work out an algorithm if they deduced
the CSS was hiding the links...

ben
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Ben Morrison
http://www.benjaminmorrison.com