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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Sep 28, 2011 7:21PM

Paul, I have to agree with Allen. While having a fully compliant
website DOES help boost SEO rankings, it is not a sure fire hit that
your rank will boost. From what I read, having an accessible site does
gets you up to the minimum SEO level, you have to go another step. If
you spit out an accessible site 3-5 years ago, you would score 8 or 9
out of 10, nowadays that is like a 5 or so.

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Ryan E. Benson



On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Paul J. Adam < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I think that accessibility improvements DO actually increase your ranking on search engines if you actually have compelling content worth reading in the first place. Google agrees.
>
> To all extents, totally non-text information is NOT searchable at all, there's no less about it. No text = no indexing.
>
> Paul J. Adam
> Accessibility Evangelist
> Deque Systems
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> www.PaulJAdam.com
> @pauljadam on Twitter
>
> On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Hoffman, Allen wrote:
>
>> The simple fact is that if people are equating accessibility
>> improvements with increase ranking on search engines may not be true,
>> and this seems to point that out.  they are not the same requirement at
>> the end of the day, so people should not expect higher rankings for
>> accessible content, however, to some extent totally nontext information
>> may be far less searchable than more text intensive data.
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