We have been working on search engine optimization on our sites for the past few weeks - and I just stumbled upon this interesting blog entry from Chris Vannoy (Newspapers and the search game) who works for a paper outside of New York City. They happen to use the same content management system as the Telegraph, which caught my eye

On a tangent from his point it got me thinking the purpose of SEO is not just getting a higher ranking on a Google search, but actually making the site accessible to search engines so readers can get what they want, no matter how they find us.

Well, we almost got our online Forums fixed today, but not quite. A planned upgrade of our content management system (Saxotech) was scheduled yesterday, postponed, then started this afternoon.

This afternoon as in Friday at 1pm prior to a 3-day holiday weekend. Any project managers or engineers out there will be laughing already.

So, the upgrade almost worked, but not really, so it was rolled back to the previous version - and we will try again Tuesday.

Stay tuned.