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Effects of web accessibility on search engines and webometrics ranking

Previous researches have highlighted the importance of web accessibility of a website. Its importance has made the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) come up with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) as a guideline for developing an accessible website. Amongst websites available in the web wide...

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Main Authors: Ayu, Media Anugerah, Elgharabawy, Mohamed Ahmed
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Language:English
Published: IGI Global 2013
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T Technology (General)
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/29963/1/SamplePages_Webometrics.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.299632016-12-23T04:28:30Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/29963/ Effects of web accessibility on search engines and webometrics ranking Ayu, Media Anugerah Elgharabawy, Mohamed Ahmed T Technology (General) Previous researches have highlighted the importance of web accessibility of a website. Its importance has made the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) come up with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) as a guideline for developing an accessible website. Amongst websites available in the web wide world, many of them are fall under the education institution website category. These education institution websites are mostly the first door that people will go to visit to get information about education services and courses provided by the institution. Thus, to be accessible is an essential issue for these websites. Another issue that gets much attention in the current competitive internet world is to be visible by popular search engines and ranked at their top lists. For higher learning institutions there is an online ranking that they like to be in the top list, i.e. Webometrics. This paper attempts to address those two issues of web accessibility and being at the top list. It presents a study that investigates whether web accessibility has a contributing effect to ranking position in Webometrics and popular search engines. The research covers websites from higher learning institutions and education domains. Three popular search engines are used in this research, i.e. Google, Yahoo! and Bing. The study produces interesting results that would be useful as a guide for higher learning institutions that want to improve their online ranking. IGI Global 2013-03 Article REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/29963/1/SamplePages_Webometrics.pdf Ayu, Media Anugerah and Elgharabawy, Mohamed Ahmed (2013) Effects of web accessibility on search engines and webometrics ranking. International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications (IJMCMC), 5 (1). pp. 69-94. ISSN 1937-9412 http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-mobile-computing-multimedia/1102
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Ayu, Media Anugerah
Elgharabawy, Mohamed Ahmed
Effects of web accessibility on search engines and webometrics ranking
description Previous researches have highlighted the importance of web accessibility of a website. Its importance has made the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) come up with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) as a guideline for developing an accessible website. Amongst websites available in the web wide world, many of them are fall under the education institution website category. These education institution websites are mostly the first door that people will go to visit to get information about education services and courses provided by the institution. Thus, to be accessible is an essential issue for these websites. Another issue that gets much attention in the current competitive internet world is to be visible by popular search engines and ranked at their top lists. For higher learning institutions there is an online ranking that they like to be in the top list, i.e. Webometrics. This paper attempts to address those two issues of web accessibility and being at the top list. It presents a study that investigates whether web accessibility has a contributing effect to ranking position in Webometrics and popular search engines. The research covers websites from higher learning institutions and education domains. Three popular search engines are used in this research, i.e. Google, Yahoo! and Bing. The study produces interesting results that would be useful as a guide for higher learning institutions that want to improve their online ranking.
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author Ayu, Media Anugerah
Elgharabawy, Mohamed Ahmed
author_facet Ayu, Media Anugerah
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title Effects of web accessibility on search engines and webometrics ranking
title_short Effects of web accessibility on search engines and webometrics ranking
title_full Effects of web accessibility on search engines and webometrics ranking
title_fullStr Effects of web accessibility on search engines and webometrics ranking
title_full_unstemmed Effects of web accessibility on search engines and webometrics ranking
title_sort effects of web accessibility on search engines and webometrics ranking
publisher IGI Global
publishDate 2013
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/29963/1/SamplePages_Webometrics.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/29963/
http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-mobile-computing-multimedia/1102
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