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Re: HTML5: SEO Incompatibility

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Post by Semiapies » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 6:45 PM UTC

msingleton wrote: post #9

Semiapies wrote: post #8

I get an "Exploit Link to Exploit Site (type 1317)" warning from AVG on this site.

hm...there are no ads on the site, disqus?

I'm not disqus or talking about ads. I'm talking about the warning pop-up I get when I try to go to that site.

Re: HTML5: SEO Incompatibility

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Post by davecardwell » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 6:46 PM UTC

“Our correlation data shows that H1 tags do not carry the same ranking weight that we had originally presumed.”

- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-best-practices-seomozs-new-po...

If their research is correct, this is likely to have little to no effect on your search rankings anyway.

Re: HTML5: SEO Incompatibility

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Post by jggube » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 6:59 PM UTC

msingleton wrote: post #9

Semiapies wrote: post #8

I get an "Exploit Link to Exploit Site (type 1317)" warning from AVG on this site.

hm...there are no ads on the site, disqus?

Clicking on the site on Google Chrome, I got the standard-issue "Warning: Suspected Malware Detected."

Re: HTML5: SEO Incompatibility

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Post by wgj » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 7:00 PM UTC

Semiapies wrote: post #11

msingleton wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hm...there are no ads on the site, disqus?

I'm not disqus or talking about ads. I'm talking about the warning pop-up I get when I try to go to that site.

Chrome gives this warning:

    The website at www.mikesingleton.net contains elements from the site 85.234.191.190, which appears to host malware

Re: HTML5: SEO Incompatibility

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Post by lhorie » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 7:31 PM UTC

>> Here’s the big question: What do search engines do?
>>

>> Truthfully I don’t know (if you do, post in the comments!).

Yeah, definitely going to listen to this guy.

Seriously, though. We're way past tweaking html tags for improving rankings these days. Rather than wasting time debating whether you should use an h1 or h2, it's much smarter to focus your time on having good content and getting inbound links from other sites.

Re: HTML5: SEO Incompatibility

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Post by msingleton » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 7:55 PM UTC

wmeredith wrote: post #10

Online Marketing Manager here. (I work for a small integrated marketing and online development agency in Kansas City.) This is a non-issue. The only way this argument holds any weight is if the search engines ignore the new HTML5 tags, which is preposterous. Does anyone actually think that Google's search algorithm which looks at over 200 factors including such on-page nuances like keyword proximity, phrase groupings…

"However, by the time HTML5 is released it's a certainty that the new tags will enhance the search engines' understanding of page content."

This is exactly the point -- these HTML5 tags are being used in production today without people realizing that search engines may not being using the new document outline model since it's a moving spec.

The conclusion is to avoid using these new semantics until they are further developed to avoid an unexpected document outline.