Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : SEO / SEM Discussions : Is encoding HTML like this Search Engine Friendly?

[hamdusa]

For example the string "Download Best Media Player" can be encoded as

Download Best Media Player

Is it search engine friendly?

I want to encode all on my text inside HTML page into this format, but only if it has no drawbacks.

Please help.

[cwcs_hosting]

Are you saying you plan to replace all your text with this numeric code?

I would imagine this would be very bad for SEO, Google won't be able to read any of the text in your code

[jordanriane]

Originally Posted by cwcs_hosting

Are you saying you plan to replace all your text with this numeric code?

I would imagine this would be very bad for SEO, Google won't be able to read any of the text in your code

Technically, Google ~can~ actually "read" the entities.

D = the letter D
& = &
♥ = heart symbol
© = copyright symbol

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_entities.asp
http://llizard.etherwork.net/cwc/charactmap.html

To the OP: I just don't see any point in using entities to replace alphabetical characters. What's your reasoning for wanting to do this anyway?

[iamjohnbrown]

I would rather doubt that this may affect it... But to be on safe side, you can use it for email addresses or similar which is sensitive or critical and not for the full page...

[Harzem]

Google is smarter than most of us, they can even read obfuscated pages that are generated by javascript.

Their main goal is finding and extracting every bit of information they can, so they don't miss any opportunity.

I bet google can read it and index it. You will come up at searches for those keywords. However I don't know how high they will rank you.

[seotout]

I makes no difference at all!

All you are doing is using the character code reference (The HTML pure code) to rendering my the webserver.

So really you could use the php tag of htmlspecialchars("THEN THE STRING TO CONVERT") which will convert to what you're talking about.


It usually help for taking content from MS Word and making sure the "& / ampersand" is used correctly in HTML e.g. & = &

the latter is "&" is HTML for the ampersand / & sign but does not form correctly if un-html-ised.

So do what you want.

Cheers,
Joe