January 24, 2007Roanoke.com hits No. 1 on Google, Yahoo!It's official: Roanoke.com is No. 1 on Google, Yahoo! and a few other search engines when searching the word "roanoke." Though this shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone that has checked under the hood (i.e. viewed our markup), but we ran into a little trouble between our own search engine and its need for a The section and story pages weren't affected with this issue and have always ranked high for SEO. This more than anything proves why it's important to follow a Web standards-based approach when building your Web site, especially when you have the quality (and quantity) of content published by The Roanoke Times and roanoke.com. Sure, there are things we could have done to make our templates better. We have a table (gasp!) used in our section and story pages to hold them together instead of using CSS floats. And many sections of our site could use a semantic makeover. But a lot of this dates back to the redesign of last year, and would be somewhat tricky to adjust at this point in time. Despite those wants, I definitely feel we're finally meeting some of those needs especially for users who might be relying on search engines to find our site. Why not try bookmarking us? |
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