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From: Annmarie L Gemma
Date: Fri, Sep 17 2004 2:03PM
Subject: Web accessibility and SEO
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Hello,
I am interested in the impact that web accessibility has on search engine optimization. I was wondering if anyone was aware of widely accepted guidelines for SEO, as there are for web accessibility (WCAG)?
In addition, would anyone be familiar with evaluation or validation tools that address both SEO and web accessibility issues?
Any information would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Annmarie Gemma
Master's Candidate in Management & Systems
New York University
From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Fri, Sep 17 2004 2:41PM
Subject: Re: Web accessibility and SEO
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> 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
From: Annmarie L Gemma
Date: Mon, Sep 20 2004 9:35AM
Subject: Re: Web accessibility and SEO
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Darrel,
I appreciate this information. Thank you for the feedback.
Annmarie
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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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