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Re: MSc Research - Does making a Website Accessible compromise Search Engine Optimisation?

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From: Simius Puer
Date: Nov 18, 2009 5:20AM

Yes - do be cautious of advice. And just to prove the point (sorry Karl)
Google Page Rank is *not *important.

"Google has removed the Page Rank score from WebMaster tools.....This is
about a strong a signal as you can get from Google to say *Page Rank just
isn’t important*." I forget where I read this originally (probably SEOMoz)
but a full explanation is available here:
http://www.shcl.co.uk/blog/2009/10/google-page-rank-is-not-important.html


Richard, I know I have responded to your questionnaire previously but you
might be interested in a recent development - comments made by Google's Matt
Cutts at a convention in Las Vegas. He has hinted strongly that Page Load
Speed set to be Google’s next organic ranking factor! This has obvious
cross-over with accessibility (in so far as using CSS rather than images to
achieve design - not over/mis-using images and multimedia etc). Good
article on this at: http://bit.ly/kmr4Z

Regards