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Good Practice? Maintaining titles/images only and offsetting position of descriptions out of screen for SEO?

June 09, 2008 7:26am

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  • #1 / Jun 09, 2008 7:26am

    Danny T.

    426 posts

    Hoping some of you can help me with this.. I tend to go the minimalistic route when it comes to design, but on the other hand, am afraid that that will have some repercussions on SEO.

    If I’m going the minimalistic route, this means all my weblog posts will not have any short descriptions on the index and section pages, and rather, the user will have to click in on a post in the list to check it out. Practicality wise, for the user, this doesn’t hinder their experience much.. But SEO-wise, this may hurt my site and I’ll be paying for presentation possibly more than I should be..

    If I go with a more blog-like approach, this means I will have short descriptions and titles as per as post in the index and their respective sections based on content type, however, I don’t like the drab look of a traditional blog.

    I was wondering if any of you would recommend me stick with the short descriptions on the index and the sections and rather, use CSS to position it outside of the screen so that they are not visible to the eyes, but will still be visible in the HTML and to search engines alike.

    Would love some input on this.. I envision an index with only images and titles.. 😊


    Cheers,
    Danny

  • #2 / Jun 09, 2008 8:28am

    Bruce2005

    536 posts

    I don’t think an index page with a list of articles with a description does anything for seo. It’s for the visitor to be able to scan content and have more of an idea what’s there than just a title gives.

    So an index with excerpts doesn’t help seo. GGl likes one url per article/title.
    One can use title in the link 😊
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