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Re: ARIA used in SEO (Search Engine optimisation)

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Dec 5, 2022 6:50PM

On 05/12/2022 23:29, Murphy, Sean via WebAIM-Forum wrote:
> All,
>
> My team is having a conversation in relation to ARIA being used in SEO. My findings thus far does not provide any evidence ARIA is used within SEO. If anyone has articles or presentations from reliable source proving either way, please share.
>
> Alt text and transcriptions are used in SEO's.

Create content aimed at human users, first and foremost.

Search engines are tuned to try and provide relevant results for their
human users too. Don't do it "for SEO".

P
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