[email protected] wrote:

> A pox upon SEO and its adherents!

Romanato is correct. It depends on whether or not it's white hat SEO or 
black hat SEO.  White hat is of course the legitimate techniques while 
black hat is the naughty, illegitimate means of bringing traffic to your 
site.

While being critical of SEO you should distinguish between those two 
groups because there is nothing wrong with working your content out to 
improve your ranking in searches or helping the world find your content 
or products more easily.

This subject stays just barely inside the lines of on topic as far as 
CSS because a semantic HTML structure is important not just for CSS but 
for SEO as well, as Romanato mentioned.  Many of the same things you'd 
do to make your page more search engine friendly also aid in 
accessibility and usability.  So before you go off cursing SEO and it's 
adherents in general it's important to acknowledge that SEO can be used 
for good and not just evil.

I love SEO and I personally wouldn't be able to work much inside the 
industry without knowing a thing or two about it while I'm writing 
markup and applying CSS to it.

-Adam Ducker (http://adamducker.com)
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