[Sigia-l] SEO versus Experience design versus usability

[Skot Nelson]

On Oct-5-2006, at 21:34 , Eric Reiss wrote:

> I also had to sometimes create content that really wasn't necessary
> for the user in any context I could concieve, but that supported our
> desired search engine rankings.
>
> ***
>
> I really hope you're referring to metadata and not something a site
> visitor actually sees.

In fairness, better written content does "search" better. If this is  
what's being described, I'd see it as a good thing.

I do generally subscribe to the "less is more" school so would agree  
with the principle that adding pages purely for search is a bit silly,
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