{"id":9213,"date":"2019-07-19T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mastercaweb.u-strasbg.fr\/?p=6663"},"modified":"2019-07-19T18:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T16:00:56","slug":"seo-gdpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastercaweb.unistra.fr\/en\/actualites\/un-categorized\/seo-gdpr\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO and GDPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9235\" src=\"https:\/\/mastercaweb.unistra.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SEO-and-GDPR.jpg\" alt=\"SEO and GDPR\" width=\"774\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mastercaweb.unistra.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SEO-and-GDPR.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mastercaweb.unistra.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SEO-and-GDPR-700x328.jpg 700w, https:\/\/mastercaweb.unistra.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SEO-and-GDPR-1024x480.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mastercaweb.unistra.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SEO-and-GDPR-768x360.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><br \/>\nWhen publishing this blog post, the <b>General Data Protection Regulation<\/b> 2016\/679 (<strong>GDPR<\/strong>) of the European Union has now been in force for a year. Let\u2019s celebrate this one-year<br \/>\nanniversary by reflecting on the past and future effects of this globally influential regulation on search engine optimization (<strong>SEO<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<h2>Does SEO benefit from the GDPR?<\/h2>\n<p>According to the Mythbusting factsheet, <b>SEO has not been a priority concern for legislators<\/b>. It is of course understandable, because, when facing worries about a complete business overhaul or<br \/>\noverwhelming administrative burdens, secondary effects tend to receive less interest. Nevertheless, <b>some effects on SEO are already visible<\/b> and, as of yet, unsettled.<\/p>\n<p>From the user\u2019s point of view, one of the most visible effects of the GDPR are the omnipresent <b>pop-ups and questions on<\/b> <b>cookie acceptance<\/b>. Many websites have chosen to seemingly try and<br \/>\nnudge users to approve all cookies by intrusive pop-ups. This approach has the benefit of <b>gathering as much data as possible<\/b> for SEO. But the benefit might as well be lost if the page rank is lowered due to the very same pop-ups. Indeed, Google does not like them in general, plus they can slow down the loading speed of a page.<\/p>\n<p>This can also be perceived as <b>bad marketing<\/b>. For a consumer, what sounds like an order to comply with cookies can be extremely off putting and an incentive to check another webpage. At the same time, the ubiquity of privacy notices on websites has given a great chance for SEO linking. As privacy notice texts tend to be written more in legalese than basic marketing lingo, they give lots more text that can be used for purposes of SEO \u2013 even to the extent that <b>GDPR has been called a gift to SEO<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s next?<\/h2>\n<p>It is also clear that not everyone will accept all the cookies, and some people will choose to turn off Google Analytics, as they now must be informed of this option. There will not be<br \/>\nas much data available as there used to be, but this is not necessarily an obstacle to SEO. It is rather a call to redirect the efforts elsewhere. <b>Targeting and tracking users will become more difficult<\/b>, but users will still make general queries. This can have the effect of making quality content a priority.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it is already safe to say that if you want to rise in rankings, having a healthy, safe and GDPR-compliant website with up-to-date content to draw in the readers is the best way to go about it.<\/p>\n<p>Written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/antti-tahvanainen-ab224975\/\">Antti Tahvanainen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mastertcloc.unistra.fr\/\">TCLoc Master\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When publishing this blog post, the General Data Protection Regulation 2016\/679 (GDPR) of the European Union has now been in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is the GDPR good or bad for SEO? - Master CAWEB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After one year of enforcement in the European Union, read about the impact of the GDPR on SEO and digital marketing. 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