TW Blog :: Archives for July 2003

Accessibility For Google

Relates to Accessibility and SEO

Scribbling.net offers an interesting article on optimising content for Googlebot (the Google Search Engine indexing software). It demonstrates the similar thinking that goes into SEO and building for accessibility. Search engine software is really the ultimate disabled user, limited by it's specific algorithms.

The point regarding the relationship between an anchor and anchor text is of obvious significance here. I had already become aware this could create problems when I first ran these pages through Bobby. It automatically picks up on repetitive anchor content (eg the use of permalink). I can see the point - a visually impaired user listening to their speech browser could get quite confused with the same anchor name repeated over and over. Noted for change.

Posted on Thursday, Jul 03, 2003 at 23:30:14.