I'm running into an interesting conversation with more regularity every week. That conversation surrounds the usability compromise that sometimes occurs when optimizing pages, functionality, content organization and linking strategies for search engines. There is theory being preached within my company that if you optimize for search engines, then you are optimizing for the user as well. I disagree. I think they are two separate sets of logic, that may in fact overlap, but are absolutely not in harmony. Until search engines accurately emulate human thought (I have my doubts this will happen very soon) then there will be compromises to the user while optimizing for search. Any thoughts?
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