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International Search Summit - web usability
Sante J. Achille Nov 20, 2008 Shari Thurow: Usability - Its Importance and Application to both SEO and SEM
- Usability - a website can be used to achieve specific goals.Often people have the perception a website works because Clients say “they like it” or “I think it works fine”
- Often there are problems related to effectiveness - can users achieve what they need to ?
- Ease of learning
- Recognition rather than recall
- Error prevention & Satisfaction all fundamental parameters requiring attention and measurement to benchmark website performance.
- Search Usability - ease with which users find information on a website.
- People say a lot about what they want with their keywords - more “pogo sticking” there is less likely are conversions …
- Balance between business goals and users goals - that’s web usability.
- Only when you talk to users you can identify their motivations
- Human-centered design - personas, make believe people, a tool to get the people on the web page.
- Persona must be specific, name and visual image, hypothetical, unique for each project
- Prototypes for different sites (in different languages) look very different in different languages - layouts can change significantly.
- Users have one of 3 intentions: navigational, transactional, informational
- Realistic expectations about Search engine positioning is fundamental - don’t design for search engines, but for people who use search engines.
- For navigational searches the URL is very important - home pages and the about pages are of this type
- For informational queries, URLs are not so important, rather the Title and descriptions
- A powerful Search marketing campaign cannot forget the user - need to know why people are searching
- How + Why = long term ROI
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