Comments on: Posting Abbreviations and Acronyms http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/05/16/posting-abbreviations-and-acronyms/ Another web site by J de Silva Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:54:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: J de Silva http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/05/16/posting-abbreviations-and-acronyms/#comment-14 J de Silva Thu, 17 May 2007 00:15:23 +0000 http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/05/16/posting-abbreviations-and-acronyms/#comment-14 When it comes to <abbr title="Search Engine Optimisation">SEO</abbr> and using the appropriate markup tags, all we can do is speculate as to how the search engines (will) use the data. When I post something online, I expect it to survive many years. So, even if the search engines are not using this data now, they will surely use it in the future. You don't want to have to spend your valuable time, sometime in the future, editing all your existing posts. Do it right the first time! When it comes to SEO and using the appropriate markup tags, all we can do is speculate as to how the search engines (will) use the data.

When I post something online, I expect it to survive many years. So, even if the search engines are not using this data now, they will surely use it in the future.

You don’t want to have to spend your valuable time, sometime in the future, editing all your existing posts. Do it right the first time!

]]> By: crystalattice http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/05/16/posting-abbreviations-and-acronyms/#comment-13 crystalattice Wed, 16 May 2007 19:31:13 +0000 http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/05/16/posting-abbreviations-and-acronyms/#comment-13 So what exactly is the benefit in regards to SEO? How do these tags make the search engines lives better? I thought they looked at the text on the page (in addition to meta-data), not necessarily the tags. So what exactly is the benefit in regards to SEO? How do these tags make the search engines lives better? I thought they looked at the text on the page (in addition to meta-data), not necessarily the tags.

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