Comments on: 10 Coding Guidelines for Perfect Findability and Web Standards

By: onreact

onreact — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:48:44 +0000

patty: Everything still applies with the exception of #8
As XHTML has been discontinued in favor of HTML5 you don’t have to use JS for opening a link in a new window.
Make sure to read the other findability resources I refer to on my blog:
http://seo2.0.onreact.com/findability-new-and-better-seo-experts-disagree-12-findability-resources

By: patty

patty — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:57:09 +0000

I found your blog when researching” findability”. This set of posts are now 2 years old. I am taking a SEO class and was wondering if the school of thought has changed since 2008. Thanks!

By: Surrey Web

Surrey Web — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:34:47 +0000

Happened to find this post through a link in your recent page. Great advice you are offering on website optimisation, although thought you might be interested in one result from a recent survey we carried out. 150 members of the community and small business owners took part and one question related to target=”_blank”. The purpose of this was explained in straightforward terms, out of the 150, 126 preferred that the system was used.

I know you are not disagreeing and suggesting a viable alternative. Just thought I would add the point. In so many tech and website forums, you see the argument that opening a new window is poor practice. In reality, most users seem to prefer websites to open a new window, as opposed to losing the website, which annoys the hell out of them.

By: Tony Kenobi

Tony Kenobi — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:52:51 +0000

excellent list of pointers for good findability

its amazing how many pages/blogs/sites have unbelievable triple hooped spagetti under the hood :-)

cheers
Tony

By: posicionamiento valencia

posicionamiento valencia — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:26:38 +0000

I work with all points on your list. Sometimes point 7 is difficult.

By: SEO Findabiltiy

SEO Findabiltiy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:42:08 +0000

I do not agree to guidline 10. AJAX, if done well, is no problem. Flash is a no-no.

By: onreact

onreact — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:24:48 +0000

I use that for two years now as otherwise any external link you add is like kicking out your visitor but target="_blank" does not validate".

By: Gregor

Gregor — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:51:58 +0000

Useful stuff, thanks Tad. I haven’t used #8 before so I’ll check it out.

Gregor

By: onreact

onreact — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:37:21 +0000

MarcusT: While the concept of “progressive enhancement” might be the better one, the term "degradable JavaScript" is still in use. Just search at Google BlogSearch for it.

By: MarcusT

MarcusT — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:28:01 +0000

“Use only degradable JavaScript (no JavaScript links)”

Nobody calls it “degradable”, the term is “graceful degradation”, but really that’s still not really the way you look at it nowadays – instead, you should ensure that as much of the main functionality of the site as possible is available via pure HTML (i.e. no JS at all) then embellish it with JS to add/enhance the site’s functionality/presentation/etc… this technique is known as “progressive enhancement”.