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HTML site is SEO friendly?
Trying to make a website using only html, so friends share your thoughts regarding the SEO range we can expect ????
1. Does is takes more time to get indexed
2. Else it will take normal time as other websites like WordPress , php or any other. -
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It’s been a while since I’ve worked directly in SEO for an agency (8 year absence), but I had several clients at the time that had ugly old html websites that they had had for years and they refused a new one.
We would make some conversion rate optimizations, but otherwise left the designs and core code alone.
Those sites always inexplicably crushed it in the rankings. My assumption was always that the code was super simple and easy to read and the load times were exceptional.
Sites built on content management systems can have way more code the crawlers have to comb through, which perhaps diluted the content itself. I don’t know, just an observation I made at the time.
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the results of .php code is rendered on the website as plain html, so there’s no difference in how search engines read .php vs. .html based websites.
Where the website language has effects on the site’s indexability and crawl frequency, is if you use client-side rendered javascript – Search engines seem to crawl these less frequently so it might take longer time between crawls and thus if you upload an article, it could take longer before that gets indexed.
so to answer the tquestions in one sentence;
pure html-based websites have no advantage/disadvantage compared to SSR frameworks, so it’ll take the normal time compared to things like WP and alike.
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Yes, HTML site is SEO friendly. You have full control of customization of coding and as a SEO expert, I experienced that coding website rank higher in SERPs than CMS.
I prefer you, please go with HTML or coding sites.
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An HTML site is generally better optimized than a WordPress site as far as performance goes. WordPress is much more bloated.
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More content also require for better ranking
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Without a CMS it will be very painful to publish a lot of content which is mandatory to gain topical authority and rank better.
Plus, WordPress or any other platform produce pure HTML at the end so from this perspective no difference. However, pure HTML/CSS based web sites don’t need server side rendering, no queries, no database which also means very fast page loading.
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Yeah and html site will rank and is SEO friendly.
Same as WordPress or any other content management system
Make sure the code is properly written, mobile responsive, and written for accessibility
No problems.
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it’s useful.
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One approach would be to talk about static or dynamic websites. Since a website with php delivers HTML anyway. A static website can be more SEO friendly, but only in specific aspects of SEO, such as page load. Most aspects of SEO have nothing to do with it. So it’s a vague approach in my opinion.
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Just so that everyone understands, no matter what your site is running on, wordpress, wix, shopify, or any CMS. The server converts the code into HTML so that the browser can render it.
With that said, if you build a hand-coded HTML/CSS/JS website it will be a lot cleaner than a website that runs on a CMS. A perfect example of this is when I use Webflow to build a website and export the site in HTML/CSS/JS. Those sites are faster and typically take a shorter amount of time to rank after all the SEO work is done to a website. Maybe a month or two.
So the trade-off from a CMS to a pure HTML website is really ease of use. You can make a CMS website just as fast as a pure HTML website with a little work.
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