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Next Sydney WebStandardsGroup meeting:
“Findability: going beyond SEO”
Presenter: Radica Raeves

Search engine optimisation is usually the first subject that comes to mind when thinking about ways to improve the visibility of your organisation online. But it’s only a piece of the puzzle. In order to help the intended audience find, use and reuse your information, we need to look beyond SEO. Findability could help complete the puzzle. It’s a much broader concept, touching on almost every aspect of the web design and development process, where specialist fields intersect and overlap. We need to try and identify these elements of findability and “plug” them into the user-centred design workflow. It’s a big challenge… Can we connect the dots and bridge the gaps?”

And two iPhone presentations.
Be there!

Things are ablaze in the SEO world. Google has changed it’s page rank algorithm it seems, dropping PR about 2 points. Mine’s still at 4 though (which isn’t much anyway). Maybe it is just about resetting the baseline. If too many related sites have a hight PR, then the value of that PR is tainted and actually of less value. I’m just happy to have a page rank…

• Google Changing the PageRank Algorithm?
• Digg Favorites Slapped By Google
• Google PageRank drop affecting sites all across the board
• Is Google’s PageRank algorithm changing?
• SMH: Google algorithm tweak spooks WWW

He he, some geek contest, organised by www.v7n.com, taking part just for the fun of it.
Interesting to see how the search engines handle this.
For example, Yahoo! was a lot faster to start indexing sites than Google.
I just started, two days after the contest was published, Google already shows 15900 32600 119000 pages, Yahoo! 12900 63200. You get different result for “v7ndotcom elursrebmem” on Google based on different datacenters/servers:
Google1 (15900)
Google2 (119000)
Google3 (114000)
How is the contest going to take this into account?
My contribution to the contest? v7ndotcomelursrebmem.tv. I’ll put up some content later.