| How Well Does Google Bot Handle HTML5? | cks_cropper | 3/16/12 4:25 AM | How well does Google bot handle HTML5 and could there be any potential pitfalls by using HTML5 in terms of rankings/indexation/crawling? For example, having multiple H1's on a page (separate <section>'s in HTML5 language) - could this be seen as nega |
| Re: How Well Does Google Bot Handle HTML5? | Lysis | 3/16/12 5:26 AM | HTML5 is just a language. This will help you understand it from Google's perspective a bit: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/microdata-support-for-rich-snippets.html |
| Re: How Well Does Google Bot Handle HTML5? | cks_cropper | 3/16/12 5:34 AM | Hi Lysis, Thanks for the information, I have a lot of experience with Rich Snippets already. What I am really looking to know is if Google bot is actually ready to handle HTML5 markup on web pages, since John Mu has said previously that they wait unt |
| Re: How Well Does Google Bot Handle HTML5? | Online Connect | 3/16/12 9:35 AM | I have used html5 markup on webpages without any problems. Since google are very active in html5 I would be very surprised if you encounter any problems |
| Re: How Well Does Google Bot Handle HTML5? | cristina | 3/16/12 9:51 AM | I do not know the exact details of how the Google algo and software analyses and process HTML5, I think it depends on the exact HTML5 tags you are using and on the current Google support for them.But if the HTML5 structure is relatively similar to an |
| Re: How Well Does Google Bot Handle HTML5? | cks_cropper | 3/19/12 3:57 AM | Interesting information so far. I too can't imagine there will be a problem. One area that does raise a potential issue though is with the new <section> tags. Since to actually flip between the different <sections>'s you have to use JavaScript which |
| Re: How Well Does Google Bot Handle HTML5? | cristina | 3/19/12 10:27 AM | Maybe give an example or test URL (It does not have to be the real site, just something to show how you deal with HTML5 and JavaScript.Usually Google does not process complex JavaScript code, it can find links and stuff like that, but it is quite dif |
| Re: How Well Does Google Bot Handle HTML5? | JohnMu | 3/21/12 8:51 AM | Hi Michael In short: our systems are pretty good at parsing the common kinds of HTML-like markup, including the various flavors of HTML and XHTML. As far as I know, our crawling and indexing systems currently don't do anything special for HTML5, so t |
| Re: How Well Does Google Bot Handle HTML5? | cks_cropper | 3/21/12 9:04 AM | Hi John, Thanks for the in-depth reply - it's always good to get official sources of information on new technologies and best practices. Awesome HTML5 website here we come :-D "Is that similar to a tabbed interface, where content is hidden and made v |
| Re: How Well Does Google Bot Handle HTML5? | webado | 3/21/12 5:32 PM | You can't avoid scrolling because you never know what size screen a user may have and how much they see. Oh maybe you can but yyou'd have to use a lot of javscript and it's just a rotten shame to use it just for that. Scrolling to me at least comes m |