{"id":16343,"date":"2012-10-30T13:03:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content26.com\/?p=16343"},"modified":"2017-02-14T11:19:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T19:19:31","slug":"can-better-seo-improve-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/can-better-seo-improve-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Better SEO Improve the Government?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major newspapers <a title=\"Journalism vs. commerce: When is the news important enough to drop a paywall?\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/10\/29\/journalism-vs-commerce-when-is-the-news-important-enough-to-drop-a-paywall\/\" target=\"_blank\">dropped paywalls<\/a>, a handful of retailers <a title=\"American Apparel angers Twittersphere with \u2018Hurricane Sandy sale\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/10\/30\/american-apparel-sandy\/\" target=\"_blank\">made fools of themselves in social media<\/a>, and someone <a title=\"Hurricane Sandy and Twitter as a self-cleaning oven for news\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/10\/30\/hurricane-sandy-and-twitter-as-a-self-cleaning-oven-for-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">called <strong>Twitter<\/strong> a self-cleaning oven<\/a>. That&#8217;s a lighthearted overview of a serious event, but I&#8217;ll leave the serious news to those in the news business.<\/p>\n<p>In our business, a timely article on <strong>Search Engine Watch<\/strong>\u00a0talked about the federal government&#8217;s current initiative to consolidate their websites, domains, and databases in an effort to improve access (including mobile access) to information and services. Using <strong>distraction.gov<\/strong>, a website dedicated to reducing the practice of texting while driving, as an example,\u00a0Andrew Delamarter explained how SEO best practices would help the government in its pursuit of digital transparency and value. A good read for SEO fence-sitters, advocates, and opponents alike.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Read the article at <a title=\"Government SEO is broken\" href=\"http:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/article\/2220737\/Government-SEO-is-Broken\" target=\"_blank\">searchenginewatch.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major newspapers dropped paywalls, a handful of retailers made fools of themselves in social media, and someone called Twitter a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[789],"tags":[1401],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can Better SEO Improve the Government?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/can-better-seo-improve-the-government\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can Better SEO Improve the Government? 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