[Sigia-l] SEO versus Experience design versus usability

[Eric Reiss]

I just want to point out that I DIDN'T write the first part of the
quoted message.

Eric

---- Original Message ----
From: skot at penguinstorm.com
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] SEO versus Experience design versus usability
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 22:43:51 -0700

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