SEO & IA - A findability challenge

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Alberto MucignatItalian IA Summit 2007

SEO & IAa findability challenge

The art and science of organizing and labeling web site to support usability and findability

Information Architecture (IA)

The art and science of making webpages attractive to the search engines

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

What about you?

Elements

The common field

Findability is a goal of IA-Wikipedia

titles

meta info

urls

labels

links

markup

contents

Typical SEO/IA informations

keywords

Challenge

Design for the people and, most of the time, you’ll keep the robots happy!

Make it easy

-UserEffect.com

Where does it all start?

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Where does it all start?

Google rule #1

Search engine is the real site homepage

-David Weinberger

Google rule #2

>90% of search engine traffic is directed to secondary pages

Searchengine

HP

Page #1

Page #2

Page #n

Old paradigma

Searchengine

HP

Page #1

Page #2

Page #n

New paradigma

Homepage is dead

http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

Hierarchy

http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

Linked hierarchy

http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

Circularity

http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

Findability

Every page is a main page

we can apply to every entry page the same rules we used for the homepage

A SEO & IA Framework

Berrypicking model

From Analytics to Structure

Find important pages groups

Discover pages groups info

Define SERP elements

Context of search

Context of search

Avoid unexpected contents

Carefully define page items

Give more

http://www.youtube.com

No more dead roads

the real paradigma...

But...

Users come from several sources

Search engine

Aggregator

Mail

Direct links

WEBSITE

Contents’ spreading

Newsletter

RSS Feed

WidgetsWEBSITE

Players

Web 5.0

Thank you!

Alberto Mucignat

alberto.mucignat@gmail.comskype: alberto.mucignathttp://www.mucignat.com