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Does wrapping everything in spans and divs impede SEO in any way? i.e. Google aside, does Bing and other crawlers interpret: <span>Perfect</span> To be the

Does wrapping everything in spans and divs impede SEO in any way? i.e. Google aside, does Bing and other crawlers interpret: <span>Perfect</span> To be the same as: <span> <span class="word2" style="display: inline-block; "><span class="char1" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 1px; ">p</span><span class="char2" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0px; ">e</span><span class="char3" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 2px; ">r</span><span class="char4" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0px; ">f</span><span class="char5" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0px; ">e</span><span class="char6" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0px; ">c</span><span class="char7" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0px; ">t</span><span class="char8" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0px; ">.</span> </span> Also... SPANNITY SPANNNN SPANNITY SPANNNN

peterjmag 15y ago
Google's crawlers don't really interpret JS, so they won't see all the extra span tags that this script applies. In other words, Google should interpret the header on the demo page as: <header> <h1>Kerning.js</h1> <h2>Take control of your web typography.</h2> </header> Check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2061844/does-googles-crawlers-have-javascript-what-if-i-load-a-page-through-ajax http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2061844/does-googles-craw... for the usual caveats.
- robtoo 15y ago
  Search engines certainly should interpret it that way, but I think the point was to question whether they all (for someone value of "all") really do do it that way in practice.