[Sigia-l] Beginner to SEO

[Stew Dean]

HI Laurie,

I don't want to hog the thread but I'm in total agreement.

It does mean that another good argument for good user experience is that it 
improves search engine placement - more appropriately it means good size 
sites updated on a regular basis with good key words, linking and relevancy 
do much better in the Google world, for example.  It means overly large and 
stagnant sites suffer and small campaign sites also suffer.  Looks like 
I've found a new way of supporting my 'not to big, not to small' view on 
corporate and blue chip site structuring.

Cheers

Stew Dean

At 14:58 23/06/2005, Gray, Laurie wrote:
>My point of view used to be that SEO was one of those necessary evils. After
>attending the Search Engine Strategies conference in Chicago in December
>(brrrr), I came away with the renewed belief that good site design (read:
>content is king) gets you the big bang for your buck in the world of SEO. If
>you have designed pages and sites for a good user experience, you're halfway
>there.
>
>Ian, I'd also recommend Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Watch site - full of
>great resources, and Frederick Marckini's book on SEO.
>
>Laurie
>
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>To: Ian McFarlan; sigia-l at asis.org
>Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Beginner to SEO
>
>Hi Ian,
>
>I have to say I feel uneasy that the world of SEO has to even exist.
>Retrofitting a site to be search engine friendly is a much more difficult
>than building a site and CMS that is search engine friendly.
>
>In my view if a sites where built, coded and tagged correctly there would
>be no need for the world of SEO.
>
>Having said that this is a good map to show how the paid and free search
>engines relate to each other:
>
>http://www.omegadm.co.uk/relationship-chart.htm
>
>Stewart Dean
>User Experience Consultant
>
>At 20:34 22/06/2005, Ian McFarlan wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've been a 'silent member' of this list for quite sometime now. I am
> >just starting to jump into the world of SEO and was wondering what
> >good reads are available out there for someone who is just starting.
> >Any help is most appreciated - Thanks.
> >
> >Ian McFarlan
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