Comments on: The Human Factor: SEO for People http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2007/06/14/the-human-factor-seo-for-people/ Website Promotion, Generating Revenue, Website Management Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:09:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Daniel http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2007/06/14/the-human-factor-seo-for-people/#comment-11209 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:34:16 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2007/06/14/the-human-factor-seo-for-people/#comment-11209 Great article Chris.

I have always been a bit frustrated with the lack of time I have to put into SEO. I have always just focused on trying to ensure I have good content and run a community well. And.. its served me well.

Don’t get me wrong, I am sure I could do much better by proactively trying to build links, optimising pages, doing searches for what might be the best keywords, but I have not done any of that and I have built a reasonable audience because we publish good quality articles and have a nice community.

You reminded me I need to do more to make my site slightly better for the human factor, but also made me feel a bit better about my lack of direct SEO action :)

]]> By: Chris http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2007/06/14/the-human-factor-seo-for-people/#comment-10736 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:00:42 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2007/06/14/the-human-factor-seo-for-people/#comment-10736 CSS has it’s uses sure, and there may be a keyword density factor involved as well with having cleaner source code. But I was more specifically mentioning it in regards to comments that it must validate perfectly.

Also, FWIW, I wouldn’t put my content above my menu. If your menu gets cutoff by the page size limited those links won’t get followed.

As for Google prefering CSS to tables, I really doubt it. I’ve never seen that.

]]> By: Kyle http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2007/06/14/the-human-factor-seo-for-people/#comment-10733 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:19:40 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2007/06/14/the-human-factor-seo-for-people/#comment-10733 Very well said, it all comes back to the seo that happens naturally without calling it seo.

Regarding CSS though, I wouldn’t discount it completely regarding its effect on rankings. I won’t go into detail in a blog comment, but I think there are some benefits outside of the human factors you refer to.

The most simple example I can give without going into detail is your navigation. Lets say you have a 20 link navigation on the left side of your content. CSS allows you to make this visible on the left, but the code is positioned below your content. I don’t think there is any debate that having your content higher in the HTML code is better than having a bunch of garbage above it first.

Also, regarding Google, I have no doubts at all that Google is able to go through your code and not have prejudice over tableless code vs. 1995 code. However, MSN/Yahoo… could be a different story.

In the end, your human factor statement applies to everything above… but my brief yet simple example of CSS and how it relates to navigation and content position could be a tricky debate. Other examples could be talked about in the future in a forum thread.

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