HTML5 is the fifth revision of and currently the latest version of HTML (HyperText Markup Language). The fifth revision of HTML introduced many new syntactic features such as video, audio, canvas as well as section and article to name a few, with which the content of websites may be better ...
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What are the SEO rules for HTML 5?
What are the rules of engagement with respect to SEO in HTML 5?
Examples of things we have been mulling over with no conclusion:
Are you penalised for not using <head> and <body> tags?
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Should I use HTML5 and/or CSS3 to build my website?
The new HTML5/CSS3 (Web8!) stuff sounds cool! Should I start using it now or stick with css/xhtml wait until more browsers can use it?
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Google search : pubdate issue
At some point this year, Google Search started to show the publication date.
When I updated my website, I noticed that the publication date was actually my birthday, simply because it's the first ...
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Will my new HTML5 website decrease my Google ranking?
I have a traditional HTML website that loads pages/sections of the site when people click on menu items. Pretty standard.
Currently, I'm working on relaunching my website with a brand new HTML5 code ...
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What is new in HTML5/CSS3?
I've seen this site and this site, but that's a lot to digest. What are the main things about HTML5 that make it different/better than regular old (X)HTML/CSS?
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So now Google has said no to old browsers when can the rest of us follow suit?
Google recently announced that they will no longer support older browsers on Aug 1st:
For this reason, soon Google Apps will only support modern browsers. Beginning August 1st, we’ll support the ...
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Overuse of H1 was bad, but now, with HTML5?
we know that the overuse of H1 will penalize sites (over-optimization penalty)
this was a proven fact, but now, in HTML 5 is allowed to use multiple H1 in the same page (inside nested sections).
SO ...
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html5 tags for SEO
I've a question for you.
Are now the new HTML5 tags, like
<header>,<footer>,<hgroup>,<nav>,...
... really usefoul for SEO?
Is google and other search engines considering ...
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HTML5 Semantics - H1 or H2 for ARTICLE titles in a SECTION
It's my understanding (based from this chapter of Dive into HTML5: http://goo.gl/9zliD) that it can be considered semantically appropriate to use H1 tags in multiple areas of the page, as a method of ...
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http-equiv=content-language alternative - the way of specifying document language
Lots of web sites uses following meta tag to specify the default language of the document:
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="es-ES">
When I go to W3C site and read about HTML ...
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Possible to only load specifiv div of a website?
I have this project i'm working on and id like to add a really small list of nearby places using facebooks places in an iframe feature from touch.facebook.com I can easily just use ...
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JavaScript control of <audio> not working in Firefox, works in Chrome
<audio id="audioMusic" loop="loop">
<source src="/Music/behind_you.ogg" type="audio/ogg" />
<source src="/Music/behind_you.mp3" type="audio/mp3" />
</audio>
<script ...
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Value of the HTML5 lang attribute
I'm working on a website which will offer localized content following the language+region approach as described on this W3.org page (e.g. fr-CA for Canadian French content, and fr-FR for "French ...
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Recommendations for a good personal resume/portfolio website
Sorry for the broad question, but I am looking for some kind of package that will look great for posting up some personal details online in a resume type fashion. Possibly with the ability to add ...
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As a beginner, I would like to know which should be the markup language to startup with [closed]
I am a beginner in Web Designing.
For sure a CMS like Joomla (Joomla 3.1, now) is very useful for one who doesn't care about coding.
But...
I know for sure that the ability of coding really helps a ...
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How will a website update - from HTML 4.01 to HTML5 - affect page ranking?
My concern is, my client is already number 2 on the search engine ranking for the main keyword of his particular field and I don't want to see him loose any more ground. He wants to not only future ...
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Should I jump straight into HTML 5 and CSS 3 from minimum knowledge of HTML?
I first learned HTML a long time ago, from the Visual Quickstart guide in 1999, HTML 4 for the World Wide Web. Though I have a grasp of fundamental concepts of HTML, my knowledge of CSS is woefully ...
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Using Schema for Blogging Article VS BlogPosting
I have been remaking my website for some time now and I want to launch it as quickly as possible but I want to make it leading edge if possible. I am currently I'm using a modified template (I know! ...
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Is my Document Type Definition Still Up to Date?
currently all my php generated rich html webpages start with this line, which I have been adding to my tempaltes YEARS ago...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
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