Django helps with several SEO-friendly techniques. Among them: beautiful URLs and Google sitemaps. To be fair, you can do these things in a number of frameworks and CMSes, so Django is not alone. But, Django does make these things incredibly easy, whereas they can be tricky to achieve in some other systems. As Django lead developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss puts it:
99% of SEO is snake oil. Django does the other 1% very, very well.
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May 29th, 2008, 6 PM in Seattle, WA
So it appears that, short of a set of stone tablets carried down from the hills of Mountain View, we do have a fairly clear answer. Using CSS image replacement in a responsible way, where the image truthfully represents the content it’s replacing, is safe to use. The simple act of hiding text from users is not enough to get your site banned from Google’s index.
I think most of us have always suspected non-shady use of image replacement would be fine by Google, but now we (mostly) know for sure. Thanks, Dave! Visit site »
The Eric on search engine optimization and standards. Visit site »