Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Does the charset used for creating your website matter for SEO?

The verdict is out.

Is UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 better for SEO?

No, the charset does not matter. UTF-8 gives more options if you have to encode more character sets. For instance Thai, Hebrew and Chinese. If a company wants to internationalize to regions of the world where non-western languages are used UTF-8 is the way to go.