Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google will index content and links if it is in the rendered HTML code of the page. That means that content and links won’t be indexed if that content is only loaded by JavaScript after clicking something on the website. Yes, if they’re in the HTML (either directly, […]
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Which is better: text-based emails or HTML? The debate is almost as old as email marketing itself. In 2011 and 2014, HubSpot asked survey takers which they prefer, and both years a majority chose HTML. In practice, though, simple, text-based email designs win out time and time again in A/B testing. Of course, it would
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Article first published April 2008, updated January 2020 Have you ever seen an HTML page or email where everything looks fine, except instead of apostrophes there are odd question marks or square blocks? You might also see other characters replaced similarly. Info from our 2008 article Most commonly, this occurs when importing HTML that has
Sometimes, improving UX can cost a lot of money.
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As a team of WordPress developers, we often stumble upon a task where we need to request a set of data using AJAX and render it to the browser. Most of the the time we do it like this: View the code on Gist. It works. However, it’s difficult to maintain this code, and most
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Not long ago, my colleagues and I at Advanced Web Ranking came up with an HTML study based on about 8 million index pages gathered from the top twenty Google results for more than 30 million keywords. We wrote about the markup results and how the top twenty Google results pages implement them, then went even further and
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WordPress announced that version 5.3 will use improved coding that will be closer to standards compliant HTML. There are good reasons why it valid HTML should be considered important for SEO. While the WordPress HTML will not be 100% valid, this update is a step in the right direction. The release date is tentatively scheduled
When browsing on the internet, it is possible to come across different websites with a clustered layout. Due to advancements in technology, this problem has been solved by the use of Sitemaps. The role of a sitemap is simple. It helps to guide visitors to the different segments of your website. Whenever your guests are
Google’s John Mueller posted on Reddit that he agrees, that HTML sitemaps are not worthwhile for SEO purposes. He said “I agree. When it comes to SEO … for small sites, your site should be crawlable anyway (and if you’re using a common CMS, it’ll almost always be fine) & for large sites, they’re not
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A sitemap guides your website visitors to where they want to go. It’s where they turn if they haven’t found what they are looking from those dropdown menus. Beyond helping your visitors navigate your website, which should be the primary focus of any marketing effort, there are many other reasons to use a sitemap. First,
