Jquery for Header
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Hi, I am using a Header template designed in jQuery, its having a small script. i woud like to know is there any bad impact on the website if I use Jquery. Thanks.
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Exactly Jonathon, but preferably in other less noted sections of the site.
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Jquery calls elements using JavaScript(JS). Search crawlers will therefore have great difficulty accessing content wrapped in JS. If you had jquery embedded in different elements of the site, then I would see only this as a minimal issue. However since you are using jquery as part of your header template, this might impact how search engine crawlers potentially access your sites navigation, including deeper level pages. If you are still keen on using jquery, I would suggest the following tips when maximizing the search engine friendliness (SEF) of your site: 1. Reduce the number of html tags for Jquery, as much as possible. You want to make sure crawlers not only access the navigation effectively, but the pages meta data (usually located in the sites header). 2. Use tags to dynamically trigger events instead of blank onclick anchor tags. 3. Always contain a html version of a page. If Javascript is disabled for a browser, I should be able to see the HTML content. 4. Externalise JS files - This not only improves site speed, but helps crawlers focus on other more important content. To see whether or not your site might be impacted from JS or Jquery, you should disable JS on your browser and make UX observations. You should also look Google's cached version of the page and note any differences. Hope this helps, Vahe
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No don't worry, you can have small animations in Jquery. The important thing is that the navigation, the content,... is not into the jquery script.
Best regards,
Jonathan Leplang
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