Simien

Notes > If you can't read it how can a search engine?

I like to think, or perhaps just hope, that despite the advances in technology the human brain still has a pretty good edge on the machines. If you want your website to show up in a search engine why not build it so it's actually readable to a human - if you can't read it how do you expect a search engine too?

I like to think, or perhaps just hope, that despite the advances in technology the human brain still has a pretty good edge on the machines. If you want your website to show up in a search engine why not build it so it’s actually readable to a human - if you can’t read it how do you expect a search engine too?

Seems like a simple enough issue but it amazes me how many times companies still want to build sites that contain underlying code with tables within tables within tables etc that present a search engine with an endless array of and tags.

Simple, standards driven design cuts through this and gives you a site that can make sense to someone with virtually no HTML knowledge. So if they can read it chances are Google et al can too and that means they’ll be able to categorise it properly and web users can find it more easily, you might even find site traffic going up?

03 Oct | Filed in Articles