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Can a website built entirely in SVG have SEO as good as a website built in HTML? If not, what are the drawbacks to using 100% SVG for a website?






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          While text in SVGs are indexed by Google, links may not be followed, and Google does not understand the semantics of the content.



          Here is a website built entirely in SVG as a search engine test:



          http://svg.nicubunu.ro/



          If you type site:svg.nicubunu.ro into Google Search, you can see that only the home page was ever indexed, and it does not even show a description on the SERP. And if you view the cached page, you can see that Google doesn't understand any of the layout of the page.



          If Google's advanced crawler is having trouble with SVG websites, I can guarantee that more basic crawlers like Bing and Yahoo will have even greater trouble with it.



          So, a website built entirely in SVG will perform poorly in regards to SEO. And aside from SEO, a website built entirely in SVG is much more difficult (or impossible?) to make look good on both desktop and phone browsers.






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            While text in SVGs are indexed by Google, links may not be followed, and Google does not understand the semantics of the content.



            Here is a website built entirely in SVG as a search engine test:



            http://svg.nicubunu.ro/



            If you type site:svg.nicubunu.ro into Google Search, you can see that only the home page was ever indexed, and it does not even show a description on the SERP. And if you view the cached page, you can see that Google doesn't understand any of the layout of the page.



            If Google's advanced crawler is having trouble with SVG websites, I can guarantee that more basic crawlers like Bing and Yahoo will have even greater trouble with it.



            So, a website built entirely in SVG will perform poorly in regards to SEO. And aside from SEO, a website built entirely in SVG is much more difficult (or impossible?) to make look good on both desktop and phone browsers.






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              While text in SVGs are indexed by Google, links may not be followed, and Google does not understand the semantics of the content.



              Here is a website built entirely in SVG as a search engine test:



              http://svg.nicubunu.ro/



              If you type site:svg.nicubunu.ro into Google Search, you can see that only the home page was ever indexed, and it does not even show a description on the SERP. And if you view the cached page, you can see that Google doesn't understand any of the layout of the page.



              If Google's advanced crawler is having trouble with SVG websites, I can guarantee that more basic crawlers like Bing and Yahoo will have even greater trouble with it.



              So, a website built entirely in SVG will perform poorly in regards to SEO. And aside from SEO, a website built entirely in SVG is much more difficult (or impossible?) to make look good on both desktop and phone browsers.






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                While text in SVGs are indexed by Google, links may not be followed, and Google does not understand the semantics of the content.



                Here is a website built entirely in SVG as a search engine test:



                http://svg.nicubunu.ro/



                If you type site:svg.nicubunu.ro into Google Search, you can see that only the home page was ever indexed, and it does not even show a description on the SERP. And if you view the cached page, you can see that Google doesn't understand any of the layout of the page.



                If Google's advanced crawler is having trouble with SVG websites, I can guarantee that more basic crawlers like Bing and Yahoo will have even greater trouble with it.



                So, a website built entirely in SVG will perform poorly in regards to SEO. And aside from SEO, a website built entirely in SVG is much more difficult (or impossible?) to make look good on both desktop and phone browsers.






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                While text in SVGs are indexed by Google, links may not be followed, and Google does not understand the semantics of the content.



                Here is a website built entirely in SVG as a search engine test:



                http://svg.nicubunu.ro/



                If you type site:svg.nicubunu.ro into Google Search, you can see that only the home page was ever indexed, and it does not even show a description on the SERP. And if you view the cached page, you can see that Google doesn't understand any of the layout of the page.



                If Google's advanced crawler is having trouble with SVG websites, I can guarantee that more basic crawlers like Bing and Yahoo will have even greater trouble with it.



                So, a website built entirely in SVG will perform poorly in regards to SEO. And aside from SEO, a website built entirely in SVG is much more difficult (or impossible?) to make look good on both desktop and phone browsers.







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