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If this is true about the Google fold that has got to be one of the most stupid things I've heard them do. So Google decides where the fold is and not the desi
by talmand 15y ago
If this is true about the Google fold that has got to be one of the most stupid things I've heard them do.
So Google decides where the fold is and not the designer or visitor? That seems stupid to me. How are they to determine such a thing? How are we as website creators supposed to know what Google's idea of the fold is to make sure we get that high value? Seems another way for people to game Google by stuffing all the content within this "fold" making for crappy websites.
Am I crazy that I think we shouldn't be designing websites for search engines but for people?
- joshuacc 15y agoThis is probably just an iteration on earlier methods of prioritizing a page's content. Previously, Google would place a higher priority on content that came towards the beginning of a page. As users became aware of this, they then began organizing their code so that the most SEOable content was at the beginning of the HTML file, but used CSS to make sure that the what users saw as the beginning of the page was still optimized for people. Presumably, now Google is checking to see which parts are actually styled to appear at the beginning, regardless of order in the source files.