What you consider the best Jquery Sliders?
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Hello there, i would like to ask you if there's some preference on certain jquery slider that not only don't interfere with SEO efforts but contribute so a good recommendation or preference from you the SEO community will be gladly received. It wont matter if its free or it has cost.
Thank you in Advance
Amarok -
Most would say no slider at all. Due to website load time increases -> slower load of a webpage.
But if you insist
Slider Revolution and Layer Slider are among the most popular.
Edit: I didnt finish fully reading Jonathans comment, but realized he choose the same too. #confirmation
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I don't think sliders affect SEO per se, but if you overload too much on slides then depending on how your site is setup (lazy loading etc) then you may find your site slows down, which is bad for seo. For this reason, I tend to do no more than 2 slides when I use the sliders.
Having said that, there are two main slider plugins for WordPress that I like... LayerSlider, and revolution slider. The links for those are:
http://codecanyon.net/item/layerslider-responsive-wordpress-slider-plugin-/1362246
http://codecanyon.net/item/slider-revolution-responsive-wordpress-plugin/2751380
Layer slider is easier to use, as they have an easy import of some samples. For this reason my preference is Layerslider. If you are buying a theme, then you will find many come with Layerslider free as part of the theme package.
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