Over 98% of websites have accessibility issues, plus experience update is coming to desktop; Thursday’s daily brief
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Topic: Web accessibility
New EU regulations compel more transparency for search rankings
Guidelines seek disclosure of major ranking factors by Google, Amazon.
Is your website at risk for an ADA accessibility lawsuit?
It's not only the right thing to comply to help users, but the majority of lawsuits over compliance with the Americans with Disability Act are aimed at smaller and medium operation businesses.
Making the most of small-screen content for big engagement impact
They say, “it’s the little things in life.” In the context of content, little things like microbrowser optimization pay off in huge ways.
Chapter 4: HTML Code & Search Engine Success Factors
These elements in the Periodic Table of SEO Factors encompass the HTML tags that provide crucial information to search engines. They help highlight key parts of your content and influence how your pages appear in search results. Are you describing movie showtimes? Do you have ratings and reviews on your e-commerce pages? What’s the headline […]
If Google says H1s don’t matter for rankings, why should you use them? Here’s why
Even if Google says its ranking systems work just fine without them, accessibility and readability are good reasons to use headings correctly.
Multiple H1s won’t get in the way of your SEO, Google says
Google still uses semantic headings to understand the context of different parts of your pages, though.
SEOs frustrated by Google’s belated pagination announcement
Apparently, people don’t like being kept in the dark.
SearchCap: Cortana integration efforts & content accessibility
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Microsoft seeks more Cortana distribution, deeper integration on Android, iOS Jan 18, 2019 by Greg Sterling We’re heading toward a voice-first world for publishers, retailers and brands. Leveraging Amazon search ads […]
How to make your content more accessible to the visually impaired
Updating alt tags and creating friendly URLs and file names are just a few ways to maximize the accessibility of your organic search presence.
Google launches portal to help developers build modern web sites
A new Google tool at web.dev measures your site's performance as well as its compliance with standards for progressive web apps, best practices, accessibility and SEO.
16 common on-site SEO mistakes you might be making right now
Columnist Pratik Dholakiya shares the 16 technical SEO issues he sees most frequently. Even the most experienced SEO professionals can sometimes overlook these common issues!
Does This Website Usability Fairy Tale Have A Happy Ending?
Whenever I’m asked what usability is, I get tongue tied. “It’s about humans and computers,” I may say, but they’ll picture robots and talking cars. “I help make web sites that work,” is closer, but vague because technically, if it’s on the Internet, it’s working. Then I’ll hear myself try to make it clearer by […]
How To Make Flash Content Search Friendly
Life is full of tough choices: Mac or PC? Mastercard or Visa? Bud Lite or Miller Lite? And choosing between two good options is never easy, as each has its own merits. Similarly, marketers have been faced with the same kind of tough choice when choosing their website design strategy: Enhance the website’s appearance with […]
Google Docs Releases New Presentation Features
The Google Docs blog has announced new features for the Google Docs suite of tools. You can now create subfolders to more easily organize your documents and can rename documents and folders from the toolbar (previously, you could only do this from the File menu). The toolbar has also been spiffed up. In addition, Google […]
Don’t Expect A Magic Flash Solution For Search Engines
Call me Mr. Rain On The Parade, but after reading an interview in The Guardian with Google product manager of crawl services Dan Crow, I can’t help but feel people are going to come away with the mistaken idea that Google will magically make their Flash content suddenly more accessible to Google’s crawlers. That ain’t […]