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Text in div
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When you use text in a div like this: <div id="container"> <h1 id="doc-header">Your Business in your Location - Your Services</h1> <p>Top industries are getting hit.p> <div id="branding"> <a href="#"> <img id="logo" src="images/logo.png" alt="Your Site" /> </a> </div> Are there SEO consequences when you put text in divs? -
Almost every piece of text on my sites is within some kind of div. There's nothing wrong with using divs at all!
However, if you were trying to hide the text within a div for manipulative purposes then this would be against Google TOS.
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Why shouldn't you place your text in divs??
Just make sure your font color isn't the same as the div's background
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Looks like correct usage of Divs to me!
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Valid markup can help the crawlability of your page and should also be encouraged as far as usability is concerned. But there's no difference in SEO if you add or remove a div tag. If you want to emphasize keywords on your page you might consider using "strong" or "em" tags. Also h tags e.g. h1, h2, ... have effect on SEO, although not the big effect it used to have some years ago.
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So if u put your text in a div this has no effects for SEO?
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What do you mean by saying "a div in place of normal text"? Apart from that, what's that got to do with CSS? All I see is valid markup and that's how wegpages should look.
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