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From: Annmarie L Gemma
Date: Sep 20, 2004 9:35AM

Darrel,

I appreciate this information. Thank you for the feedback.

Annmarie

----- Original Message -----
From: "darrel.austin"
Date: Friday, September 17, 2004 4:37 pm
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Web accessibility and SEO

>
> > I am interested in the impact that web accessibility has on search
> > engine optimization.
>
> The more human-accessible a web site is the more machine-
> accessible it is.
> Google-bot will thank you. ;o)
>
> Pay attention to semantic markup as well (which is certainly a
> part of
> accessibility as well.)
>
> > I was wondering if anyone was aware of widely accepted
> guidelines for SEO
>
> There's a lot out there, but it's fairly simple:
>
> - the cleaner, more semantically rich your content,
> the easier it is to index
> - good, descriptive TITLES go a long way
> - the closer to the top your content is in the source,
> the more likely it will be indexed
> - write good, pertinent content that others find worthy
> enough to link to
>
> And all of these play a role in both SEO and accessibility (and
> usability).The only other good idea is to add meta tags for
> indexing (it won't do much
> for your google ranking, but other engines...namely future
> internal ones can
> benefit from it).
>
> -Darrel
>
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