Since I use Newspaper, all my webpages have a very bad text/HTML ratio (thanks Semrush)
When I look at the HTML code of the pages, I find a lot of lines of code from Newspaper : it begins with *<![CDATA[*/var tdBlocksArray=[];function tdBlock() and ends more than 200 lines later !!!!
Is it possible to move this code in another file ? It is a big SEO issue, my post’s text appears at line 400…
Best Regards
Not an SEO issue. Blocks on a home page or index page which contain your story indexes need to be there for page to render. Google reads text on your page, not the DOM elements that build layouts. Even if you move your “mega menu” to external file, it still needs to load on the page when viewed by a robot or other element.
You’re better off doing “fetch as Google” and using Google PageSpeed Insights, mobile friendly check, GTMetrix.com test on your post, as barometers.
SEO is most affected by your title tags, h1 tags, actual text relevant to the title tag and permalink, the amount of original unique info on the page on topic, and external links to your site from other sources that cite your page as relevant to that, even if it’s just social sharing.
The HTML used to build the DOM, does not “hurt” your SEO, unless you have two paragraphs on a page and then a mega menu, and 50 blocks of other stuff unrelated to that one page.
Just food for thought having done SEO since March 1995.
Thanks for your answer Chris,
The header style of Newspaper is directly written in the page, I think it should be put in a css file, not in the HTML since it’s 300 lines long.
Don’t you think ?
Hello,
What you see in the page source is actually compiled css. Without it, the theme will not work properly. We cannot provide any solution to remove these lines of code, sorry. We can assure you our theme is built according to all of the coding standards to date and that compiled css you can see will not affect your rankings on google as it does not affect SEO in any way.
Thank you!
