Comments on: Usability and SEO - Red Light, Green Light

By: Jan Weingarten

Jan Weingarten — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:45:02 +0000

Nothing changes, does it? I worked as a lowly sr. tech writer back in 2001 before the web totally devoured Silicon Valley, and of course we tech writers were at the bottom of the food chain and had to write about stuff when it was too late to fix. Usability was considered something of an afterthought even though we did do some usability groups. SEO, whassat?

If you build it, THEY WILL NOT COME! Yeah, usability’s important, but if no one sees it, uh who cares? You’re right, they’re “equal sides of the same lung.”

Cool blog.

Oh, thanks for stopping by my Mybloglog profile!

Jan

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Usability and SEO - Red Light, Green Light — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:38:28 +0000

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By: Thogek

Thogek — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:37:47 +0000

This usability vs. SEO balance gets particularly interesting on a Web site for which usability includes performance considerations: page load-times for search- and data-intensive functionalities, or for feature-dense UIs, etc. In this environment, designers and developers might start turning toward tactics that improve user-perceived page-load performance, such as delayed AJAX-loading of some parts of a page’s content, which (when done right) can be very effective in speeding up delivery of a usable page to a user. However, content that is delivered via AJAX is not generally indexable by the crawlers, which can be an SEO issue…

AJAX vs. SEO is going to be an increasingly interesting related discussion for awhile…

By: Rose Sylvia

Rose Sylvia — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:24:46 +0000

Hopefully articles like this one will help more people understand that results require covering all of the bases. What good would a highly usable site be if no one ever came? And what difference does all the traffic in the world make if no one ever buys?

Those who build the best team of experts with specialized skills will continually improve sales and profitability. Those who never “get it” will have mediocre results at best. Kim is giving excellent advice here; those who take heed will be on their way to better sales.