Content is king, is it okay if its in a widget?

[greenhornet77]

My home page for my site, isn't really a home page, not sure how to describe that.

We have additional pages that are stand alone pages which we work on and add content too, just not for the main page.

So I have put my 300 words in a widget on the front page (which actually shows up on all the page being a widget.

Is that good for SEO, or should it be in the body of a page?

Thanks!

[IainReloadMedia]

Hey Greenhornet,

This depends on how the widget is made. If it's none accessible by Search Engines, i.e. it's made in Flash, then Search Engine can only read limited information from them. So in the Flash case, it's not of any really benefit.

If the widget is accessible to Search Engines, then better for the home page. However if it's on every page, you'll have issues with duplicate content. Therefore just have the crawlable widget on the home page, and start developing content for all your other pages.

Hope that helps, and good luck.

Iain - Reload Media