Articles -- Usability

Confusing Navigation - the Worst Enemy of Web Usability

Irina Ponomareva |

October 16, 2006

How many times have you looked hesitantly at a website you have just come across, wondering where to go next? Basically, if the navigation of the website is confusing, all other efforts directed at improving the usability factor will fail. On the web, navigation is the key to everything.

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SEO and Usability

Irina Ponomareva |

June 22, 2006

SEO, as we know, is the science of making sites the best they can be for the search engines. Usability is all about making sites the best they can be for human visitors. Consequently, to make sites the best they can be for both types of visitors, we need to combine usability and SEO and work out a set of rules that works in both cases. Following these rules will take us in the right direction from both the usability and the SEO point of view. Neglecting them will hurt both users' experiences and the search engine success of our websites.

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