Proof that education technology universities teach you nothing!

Ok, so I thought I would check some of the so called best universities in the USA for technology awareness and see how good their SEO is. I was blown away. Would you want the web master who created their homepage working on your site? Obviously they flunked computer science.

MIT(dot)edu

meta description longer than 150 characters. Robots will show cut off description.

H1 heading contains an image. It should only contain text.

website can live at both www.mit.edu and mit.edu

Not even a 301 direct done combing the 2 URL.

This is basic SEO (search engine optimization) !!!

I wonder how many years and how much money parents spent sending kids to a university that can not even make their own homepage search engine friendly?
Unbelievable. Or is it?

 

Judging the

Presuming to judge the quality of the education MIT provides by the merit you find in their website says a lot about you and nothing about an MIT education.

 

The website represents the university online. I would be pretty embarrassed if I were them!

 

Maybe they know something we don't.

 

... or maybe they don't care about SEO.

They are BRAND

 

Probably could have changed the title post but you would think one of the top universities that teach computer science would at least have a 301 direct done. That is pretty basic SEO. Obviously the person who built the site does not care how they represent the university online. Pretty lame I think and I am allowed to think that. Anyone here take a course there? MIT? I am sure they have good teachers and courses but the website is pathetic in my opinion. I have no IT courses and have been doing this for 3 years and I can spot that.

 

You are entitled to your opinion on their website and, in fact, my be correct that there are problems with it. I took issue with your drawing the illogical conclusion that it somehow reflects on the education one receives at MIT. I also happen to believe it does not matter one lick, nobody has a difficult finding the MIT site and thus any errors you are worried about are totally meaningless and have no negative effect whatsoever.

As an aside, MIT has a ton of free online courses you can take/watch.

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/most-visited-courses/

 

You are entitled to your opinion as well. The way I see it people world wide see the site and that they teach computer science. Not having their own site built properly reflects badly on them. They do not teach SEO in an IT university? I would find that rather dubious. As stated I do this as a hobby and it gave me a bad impression. I am in fact right and no maybe about their SEO issues. You should know that there is several SEO issues with their homepage just as I stated. The professionals that work there in other departments would want their university represented in the very best way I would think also. They have a good reputation and their online web site presence is tarnished by it. This is a school full of technical people and it is surprising that some one like myself comes along and has to point this out. If you think it is meaningless then you are saying proper web site coding means nothing. Why bother ever taking a course it in then? Of course they are branded and everyone can find them. Think about how much money gets pumped at the place.

 

I would be surprised if they did teach SEO at MIT.

 

Google search first entries.

http://www.jm-seo.org/massachusetts/mit-continuing-education.html

http://www.seosemraleigh.com/seo-expert-articles/mits-free-online-course-enrollment-begins-today/

 

I guess I should have been more clear. I was referring to students actually attending MIT undergraduate or graduate programs, not extension courses or free online courses. But maybe they do even offer it to their full time students, but I as I said, I would be surprised.

Anyway, I think you are making way too much of a couple of minute errors, even if they actually are errors. You are acting as though you found some fatal flaw. I really fail to see anything to be concerned about.

 

It is pretty clear there is SEO issues. As I first stated. You are the one that goes on and on defending them. Why I have no idea and do not much care. I made my point. The facts are as they stand. Maybe you are one of those who is not happy unless they get the last word.