Are webforms or contact forms bad for SEO on the homepage?
Does this confuse spiders? Do the negatives outweigh the positives given that my strategy is to A get number 1 for a keyword and 2 collect data from visitors…?
4 Responses
Martin
26 Mar 2010
Dexter T.
26 Mar 2010
No it doesnt confuse them, they treat the forms as part of the standard website layout which might require users information. This doesnt fall into any of the negative areas that the spider sees. Forms are perfectly normal for the website.
However there might be a catch for it, if a website is totally built around forms that might give bad signals to google. But i dont think thats the case with what your trying to achieve
Walter B
26 Mar 2010
Are you using an autoresponder?
You need one to collect name and build a list.
Remember this – the money is in the list.
Seoconsultant
26 Mar 2010
Not exactly, as far as there is no error on the page and everything works and that webform should relate to some theme. that helps spider to index the content.
Absolutely not. Contact forms will not afffect rankings adversely. A contact form is a natural, and sometimes required part of Internet pages, and search engines have no problems with them.