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I work at an ad agency and we have to send this link to people on a regular basis. We actually had a customer once who put 40 (!) carousel slides on the frontpa

I work at an ad agency and we have to send this link to people on a regular basis. We actually had a customer once who put 40 (!) carousel slides on the frontpage of his website and wondered why nobody is clicking through to the linked pages. When someone insists on carousels now, I tell them that it will also hurt website performance and therefore its ranking on Google. This shuts them up 99% percent of the time.

julianlam 4y ago
It's amazing just how versatile the word "SEO" is. It truly is the cause of and solution to all of your website's problems. Or to view it more cynically, SEO is the Swiss Army knife that can simultaneously excuse away poor performance while justifying additional expenditure.
- gumby 4y ago
  Its my go to justification for any decision I want these days. I successfully used SEO to get out of vaccination (by becoming magnetized I would be unable to balance the page, you see).
apocalyptic0n3 4y ago
One thing I've noticed is fewer clients want carousels now, but we have had quite a few request a hero image with static content and a dynamic background. They'll add 4 or 5 hero images, and we'll just smoothly transition between them every 4-5 seconds while the text/CTAs remain the same. It seems that what they really want is just some animation and flashy on the page and the only way the average person knows to do that is via a carousel. As far as I'm aware, this style of hero has been much more successful when we've done it.
jsf01 4y ago
Hahaha this reminds me of a client that wanted to put his entire portfolio (120+ images including blueprints with text) into a carousel despite my suggestion that he use a gallery. And because he wanted viewers to look at every image he asked me to remove all controls, including pause and previous. So it was essentially a 10 minute JavaScript powered video slideshow. The whole site became so bad on his requests that I could no longer use it toward my portfolio.
- andrei_says_ 4y ago
  This here is an absolute classic: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell It was written probably a decade ago but is unfortunately a classic.

julianlam 4y ago

It's amazing just how versatile the word "SEO" is. It truly is the cause of and solution to all of your website's problems. Or to view it more cynically, SEO is the Swiss Army knife that can simultaneously excuse away poor performance while justifying additional expenditure.

gumby 4y ago
Its my go to justification for any decision I want these days. I successfully used SEO to get out of vaccination (by becoming magnetized I would be unable to balance the page, you see).

apocalyptic0n3 4y ago

One thing I've noticed is fewer clients want carousels now, but we have had quite a few request a hero image with static content and a dynamic background. They'll add 4 or 5 hero images, and we'll just smoothly transition between them every 4-5 seconds while the text/CTAs remain the same. It seems that what they really want is just some animation and flashy on the page and the only way the average person knows to do that is via a carousel. As far as I'm aware, this style of hero has been much more successful when we've done it.

jsf01 4y ago

Hahaha this reminds me of a client that wanted to put his entire portfolio (120+ images including blueprints with text) into a carousel despite my suggestion that he use a gallery. And because he wanted viewers to look at every image he asked me to remove all controls, including pause and previous. So it was essentially a 10 minute JavaScript powered video slideshow. The whole site became so bad on his requests that I could no longer use it toward my portfolio.

andrei_says_ 4y ago
This here is an absolute classic: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell It was written probably a decade ago but is unfortunately a classic.