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JoelSutherland on Nov 10, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: SEO is Dead

Let a dead horse rest.

SEO is what it is. Right now it isn't such a bad thing, it is primarily a bunch of best practices. They might seem elementary to hackers, but they are necessary.

axod on Nov 10, 2008 [–]

Those practices are not 'seo practices'. They are 'usability, accessibility practices'.

Make it easy, relevant, valuable to users, and the search engines will value it too.

JoelSutherland on Nov 10, 2008 | [–]

Right, but when Jane Doe finally builds a website for her offline business she wants to figure out why she doesn't show up on search engines.

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