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Re: ARIA used in SEO (Search Engine optimisation)

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From: L Snider
Date: Dec 6, 2022 8:13AM

I agree with Patrick. I used to do search engine optimization for years and
years. I built usable sites that were as accessible as possible at the
time. They did very well on Google, for years. I never used tricks,
ever...I did excellent HTML code, no errors. The spiders appreciated it.
Search engines are like different technologies, if they can't get through
something, they leave.

If you misuse ARIA, you can make your site more inaccessible, which means
people won't come back. ARIA should only really be used on a limited basis,
if at all possible.

In my experience over the eons I have been on the web, do a site for the
majority of humans first, as Patrick said...

Cheers

Lisa

On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 9:50 PM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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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