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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2007 - 2:25 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 304 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
"Web 2.0 sites have caught on because they offer slick user interfaces, with cool AJAX effects and lots of user-friendly controls and really useful mashups of content. But many Web 2.0 developers are apparently clueless when it comes to search engine optimization—often to the point where they're actively harming their presence in search engines."
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from rotatedspectrum 302 days ago #
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Thank you.

This all comes down to webmasters and designers using the correct technlogy for the correct application.  It all goes back to the old saying: Just because you can doesn't mean you should!

For me, spiderability is everthing.  You can have the coolest site in the world, but if you can't get good organic search results (or even indexed), you're dead before you begin.
 

from chrisg 301 days ago #
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Chris,

re: the example of a site with good alternate navigation - http://wikimapia.org/ ... it looks like it's effective, but isn't the div you mention (which contains the alternate navigation structure) actually a hidden div?

At first glance I don't see a visible link to the country 'directory' page i.e. the alternate navigation a bot can spider. Am I missing something, or could this actually be considered 'hidden text' ?

thanks.


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