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Don't Get Stung By Compliance Issues

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The amount of change possible on a large business Web site can be limited based on either company policies or outside oversight, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx) compliance issues. Compliance programs, both internal and external, are essential to maintain a level of quality and an approval process to keep damaging requests from getting through. But these processes can cause problems when changes need to be made around SEO (define).

The added layer of complexity created by these programs can slow the Web development release process down, or even prevent a release altogether. Additional problems arise when SEO changes are requested, since SEO is rarely understood by others in the organization, and thus commonly considered less important.

From company to company, the amount of information that can be changed on a Web site varies. Most often, companies that carry financial information within their sites can change little or nothing without a massive overview and audit. The governing parties that watch these sites clearly dictate the changes that can be made. In many cases, your SEO-related changes will not make it out the door, in favor of experiments that may have at one time worked in the normal marketing world.

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