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HTML5 and SEO necessity



User: Chase R. 11 years ago
I have two sites made in dreamweaver and one in everweb. I'm wanting to pump up the SEO on them. Is it worth the time to rebuild in HTML5 for SEO? Am I missing a good opportunity to enhance them? I was also reading Roddy's notes on the importance of HTML5 for good SEO. What are your thoughts?

I am considering rebuilding the dreamweaver sites in everweb. Do I need the the html5 widgets?
thanks all.
- c
User: James G. 11 years ago
My opinion is - yes. Of course if you can do it all with code in an HTML widget, go for that. I feel the price for them is negligible for the ease of use and speed to deploy them.

On the other hand, a lot of SEO is simply your content (in my opinion). As I have read what google wants to see, for me it very much points to content above most other things. Without knowing you I will say- if you do not want to write compelling content with keywords, do not want to write good descriptive names for images, do not want to write good alt text for images; then they probably will not help much
User: Roddy 11 years ago
SEO is a matter of keywords and hierarchy. Taking it one step further is to group related content which is what the HTML5 containers do.

The other huge advantage is in web page download efficiency. The HTML5 layout widgets - such as the Article with Image - not only group related items in a recognizable manner for the spiders but also visually with the minimum of code.

These content blocks make sense on their own so can be used elsewhere and still make sense. Their size can be quickly adapted for the mobile site simply by dragging down the width.

I notice a large number of users create content blocks using text boxes and shape images. To the human visitor these look OK but, in reality, they are just a jumble of divs and shape images which increase the page download time, have no hierarchy and no direct relationshipto each other.

Using the HTML5 containers, all the styles are created using CSS which increases the efficiency. A "template" block can then be duplicated to quickly create lots of them without having masses of shape images for the browser to download.

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Roddy

Website: http://everwebwidgets.com
Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html
NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own.
User: spyboynola 10 years ago
Quote: Roddy - 11/06/2015 3:59:38


I notice a large number of users create content blocks using text boxes and shape images. To the human visitor these look OK but, in reality, they are just a jumble of divs and shape images which increase the page download time, have no hierarchy and no direct relationshipto each other.

Using the HTML5 containers, all the styles are created using CSS which increases the efficiency. A "template" block can then be duplicated to quickly create lots of them without having masses of shape images for the browser to download.

Yesterday I bought what I thought were your html5 containers, but after trying them none of them allow me to format text the way I want it to be. Different colors, indentation, etc.etc, did I miss something? It has happened before!
User: Roddy 10 years ago
See THIS PAGE for info about text styles.

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Roddy

Website: http://everwebwidgets.com
Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html
NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own.
User: Chase R. 10 years ago
thanks, everyone. reading through this now.


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