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irmikeyb

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2008-06-30

Posts: 156

SEO

I wanted to know if anyone could clear something up for me about this. I know that when your site is crawled it only crawls so much on your content. So I believe its first 5 divs? Anyway I was informed by someone that substituting <div class=""> with html 5's <section class=""> allows you to still pull the same information from your stylesheet but the crawler will skip over them. Is this true and if not is there something that you can do to skip certain areas more less. Below is an example of what i mean by this as well

Example:
<div>
<div>
<section>
<section>
<section>
<div>
<div>
<div>

Basically in this example im showing that on my page i use 2 divs first. This would be the first 2 things that are crawled. Next im showing that if i would substitute the next 3 divs with the html 5's <section> those 3 parts would be skipped and the crawler would then start crawling those last 3 divs.

Is this correct?

Smartys

Former Developer

Registered: 2008-04-27

Posts: 3,117

Website

Re: SEO

I've never heard anything about a div "limit" and I honestly doubt such a limit exists.

Paul

Developer

From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2008-04-27

Posts: 1,623

Re: SEO

I've never heard about it either plus the <section> tag still has rather patchy browser support.

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jonathan sloan

Member

Registered: 2010-03-25

Posts: 1

Website

Re: SEO

Hi,
There is no div limit nor any known content/links limit for crawling/indexing inner pages. Google crawls your site according to the importance of your site so higher PR sites are crawled several times a day and so on. If your site has higher PR, crawling of content and inner crawling of pages will be a breeze irrespective of how it is distributed in div sections and so on.

davidwhitton

Member

From: London, UK

Registered: 2010-04-06

Posts: 1

Website

Re: SEO

No-one knows for sure what Google's algorithm is for sure (they claim there are over 200 factors) and so this div limit is just a myth, just like "google only indexes the first 500 words of your site" or "google penalizes you for oversaturation of keywords". Just focus on having appealing content in your FluxBB and you'll be fine. :-)