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Trading an SEO advantage for a string to look better in the title bar and in bookmarks seems like a dumb trade.
by markbao 16y ago
Trading an SEO advantage for a string to look better in the title bar and in bookmarks seems like a dumb trade.
- tel 16y agoUnless you (Gruber) care prominently about Apple/Google and other places with enough inbound link equity that your marginal SEO increase is minuscule and marginal UX*appreciation gain is large.
- markbao 16y agoBut for everyone else, there's MasterCard.
- sans-serif 16y agoSo how far will you go to screw up your users' experience? Where's the limit?
- jokermatt999 16y agoForgive me if my sarcasm detector is broken here, but...really? It's a page title. It's not a harbinger of horrible UX.
- khafra 16y agoI think it's a fair question--once you trade even the smallest marginal piece of UX for a marginal piece of SEO ranking, you start down a slope. It may or may not be a slippery slope, but it's certainly not a level plane.