Q and A: Which type of page formatting is best for SEO purposes?

Dear Kalena...

For SEO and other purposes, in a simple medium sized site, using Dreamweaver - which method of formatting is best: using CSS, style, format or manually? Does it matter if a mixture is used, a result of having different people designing the site?

Thanks
Peter

Kalena's Answer:

Dear Peter

In terms of search engine compatibility, you should try to keep as much of your page formatting off the page as possible. The aim being to keep the HTML clean and reduce code bloat to ensure search robots can index it more easily.

So this means using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and external JavaScript files if you are using JavaScript menus. Need more info? Read this page about formatting web pages for better SEO.


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