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Originally Posted by Narasinha
Keeping up with the evolving standards is difficult at best, but in my opinion, it gives a site an advantage over those that do not comply with the standards. The semantic structure of pages helps the bots (consider them to be users who are both deaf and blind) analyze the content. If we can "spoon-feed" the content to the bots in the best possible way, we can make great strides in the organic search results.
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Ok back on topic because this raises an interesting question in light of previous off topic sub-thread Its one thing when we are working with a designer specifically which might not be on the same page as us but what about the main stakeholder, the client.
I mean, what you say about keeping up with evolving standards being difficult at best is true as we know but what about when you have to balance this need with the errant desires of the client which you know are rather off kilt with respect to how it really should be done.
Do you after you have already argue until you ar eblue in the face and the client just doesn't get it jump up and say "I won't put my name on it unless it is done such and such way" and risk losing the money that will feed your family or do you work within the constraints and try to find some sort of balance that may not satisfy those "standards" but will at least move things forward in a good way and retain the client and hopefully pave the way for future development or...?
Of course I think anyone honest here will choose the latter over the former but I'm curious as to how different people might handle this.