It depends on what flavor of SEO you're talking about. There's the notion that building HTML pages in a very standards compliant way increases search engine visibility & accessibility "for free" so to speak. Better accessibility could be considered better usability.
But I'm guessing this isn't the type of SEO you're thinking about. If you could be more specific, I'm sure the list could come up with more ideas on this one. Jeff On Jan 3, 2008 3:24 PM, Mark Schraad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? > > Mark > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
