Adam_Lasnik - 9:28 pm on Sep 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hey everyone,

fjpapaleo: I thought we were supposed to build our sites for our visiors and not for Google?

Absolutely. I have to admit that I would have chosen a different title, but luckily I get to choose the content :-).

Martinibuster: I have a feeling that this runs toward the create lots of content and make it accessible to spiders level of optimization. I doubt we'll be seeing reciprocal link directories popping up on .gov sites a few months from now, lol.

Actually, it's more like... holy moly, there are already a zillion pages of content here! How can we do a better job of making it accessible to the Googlebot, sight-impaired users, etc. But yeah, Martinibuster, link exchanges and v1agra-4-u comment spamming techniques aren't on the agenda :P

With this said, I have to frankly note that -- while I'm excited about this upcoming presentation to government manager folks -- I think that the generally very-tech-savvy WebmasterWorld audience would be disappointed with the depth and focus of information presented. The primary emphasis will be on accessibility, not ranking, and the needs (and limitations) of government sites are often quite distinct from those of for-profit sites.

[edited by: Adam_Lasnik at 9:45 pm (utc) on Sep. 5, 2006]