SEO Benefits of CSS Part 1

SEO Benefits of CSS Part 1

published by Dan in SEO with No Comments

Lots of web design clients nowadays prefer web designers to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) mostly because a website designed using CSS is really easy to maintain. CSS allows content and design elements to be kept separate so that anytime the client wants new content to be added or old one to be replaced it can be done without affecting the site design, making updating the site virtually hassle-free. Even when it comes to changing some factors like the font color or type size of a certain paragraph or heading thanks to CSS it can be done super fast so that in a few seconds or minutes you’ll be done with the changes.

What many clients do not realise though is that CSS can also be advantageous in terms of SEO. Some of the reasons why CSS can benefit your SEO efforts include:

• Less code - Less code means greater readability of the content, at least for the spiders, since it makes for a more efficient crawling of the files. For users this is also good news because less code means smaller file sizes, which in turn means faster loading time of pages.
• Ability to move important content - Move where? To the top of the HTML file. Since it is on top of the HTML file it will be deemed as more important (remember placement makes a difference) by spiders. It will also ensure that soon as the HTML file is crawled then that important content will be indexed. Some files a cropped so it is imperative to get the important ones on the top.

to be continued…

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