seo impact

Hi @tekgirlymama Good questions! Since SEO impact varies based on style and type of pop-up, I’m checking with our team to see what’s possible with ours (I’m not sure a full page non-closable pop-up is).

It is possible to iframe another website’s page into one of our pop-ups, but that could cause some styling issues with responsiveness and layout.

Once I hear back from our developers on the issue, I’ll report back. Thanks for taking the time to write and ask these questions! If more use cases come to mind, feel free to send additional info to [email protected]

Best,
Monica

Hi again @tekgirlymama Looks like some of my answers were incorrect. Sorry about that!

Here are answers to each of your questions:

Question: Will a full page overlay be seen by seqrch engines or is there a way to hide it?
Answer: Yes, the page overlay will be visible to search engines. The content from the overlay will live in the page’s HTML.

Question: What is the SEO impact if it’s non-closable full page [so it looks like page content]?
Answer: If it’s full-page and non closable, then it’s likely Google will punish the rankings in search results, but this only applies to mobile. We’re wondering what the use case is for a full screen popup that isn’t closable — would you be trying to think of a way to change the page’s content? If so, why not redirect users to a normal (non-pop-up) page with the content? That’s better for SEO and user experience.

Question: Can I embed another website’s page in there or a lander from same site?
Answer: There’s a line in the code preventing iFrames:
$content = apply_filters( 'the_content', get_post_field( 'post_content', $this->config->current_id ) );
Wordpress by default strips iframes when filtering the_content for security reasons. So it’d be difficult to embed another website’s page.