{"id":24051,"date":"2024-04-23T17:27:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=24051"},"modified":"2024-04-23T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T17:27:13","slug":"google-says-that-seo-is-not-about-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=24051","title":{"rendered":"Google says that SEO is not about magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>John Mueller of Google had another sentence, this one said, &#8220;keep in mind that SEO is not really about magic.&#8221;  This was in response to trying to get SEOs to try to find some magic by using various HTML elements and therefore see some kind of SEO benefit to that &#8220;magic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The original question <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TechSEO\/comments\/1bx8aem\/h1_inside_hero_carousel_rotating_between_other\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit<\/a> was:<\/p>\n<p>I would like to place my H1 inside the first slide (it will always be the first slide) of a hero carousel (using SplideJS).<\/p>\n<p>It will be in rotation with 3 other slides, all with the same screen time.<\/p>\n<p>None of the other faces will have an H1, just the first slide with the page title.<\/p>\n<p>Would this have any impact on SEO?  Should the H1 always be visible on the page?<\/p>\n<p>John Mueller of the original Google responded to this thread citing Google search results for a query [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=johnmu+h1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">johnmu h1<\/a>].  Then he added:<\/p>\n<p>I would think what kind of problem it could create compared to the other comments about H1 from the search link and elsewhere.  If the answer is &#8220;a little magic might happen when these two elements touch&#8221;, keep in mind that SEO isn&#8217;t really magic \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Gary Illyes in 2015 said that the magic of SEO is learned from experiments, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion in the forum a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TechSEO\/comments\/1bx8aem\/h1_inside_hero_carousel_rotating_between_other\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-seo-is-not-about-magic-37193.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mueller of Google had another sentence, this one said, &#8220;keep in mind that SEO is not really about magic.&#8221; This was in response to trying to get SEOs to try to find some magic by using various HTML elements and therefore see some kind of SEO benefit to that &#8220;magic&#8221;. The original question Reddit was: I would like to place my H1 inside the first slide (it will always be the first slide) of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24053,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24051\/revisions\/24053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}