Numbers above actual site content
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Most pages on my website contain many numbers above the actual text on the page. This is useful for users and looks good on an actual view of the page. However, when a bot reads the page it appears as rows of numbers with a few sentences at the bottom of the page.
Does having these number have a negative SEO effect? If so, should I change them to something such as an image so they aren't readable by search engines?
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I would like to see the pages, because i cant see how numbers would help conversion.
Jou could also load numbers after a delay, but proabably the easiest answer would be to make sure you have description tags,a nd place plety of other text for SE's to sample -
In that case my solution based off of what you've described would be to put the numbers after the content in the HTML markup and position them visually using CSS. It sounds like the data is more important for conversion than actual content.
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The numbers don't show up in SERPs, but when crawling the page it seems to be mostly numbers (on most pages of the site). Did you see broken internal or external links? Thanks!
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The numbers come first because of design and because they are more likely to convert than starting with text (even though in a word document they wouldn't make much sense)
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The numbers come first because of design and because they are more likely to convert than starting with text (even though in a word document they wouldn't make much sense)
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Do the numbers logically come first in the document or do they just go there because they look good design wise?
If you took your page and put it into a word document and it didn't make sense for the numbers to come first, put them after the content and use CSS to position them where you want them.
I've done this on a few sites of mine, but my general rule is always: Make the content make semantic/logical sense in the HTML first, then put things into place for design purposes with CSS, and while you're doing all that, keep SEO in mind.
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Do you mean the numbers show in the serps? Do you have description meta tags?
Search engines used to use the description meta tags but these days they pick and chose when to do ao, if you are getting them in the serps then they are making a bad choice. this will hurt your conversion, as people dont liek to ckick ona messy serp.i went to your site,. netbet and found many brocken links, this is proably a bigger concern.
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