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Does custom "hackish" CSS lower the ranking for the game?

A topic by Green Frisbee Games created Apr 15, 2019 Views: 451 Replies: 2

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Hey!

I was wondering if my custom CSS could negatively affect the ranking of my game, given that I've removed some elements I didn't want in the page like the footer, the more information button, the background under the logo etc. I've seen somewhere else that adding ads to the itch.io page could negatively affect the page ranking and I'm wondering how it works. I try to keep the page pretty minimal and straight to downloads as I use this page as the download button for my website: http://jumpai.net (people clicking on that button want to download, not to read more).

So, could there be negative effects of my custom css? Here's the CSS: https://hastebin.com/saditabazu.css

Cheers,
Winter

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leafoAdmin5 years ago(+1)

Generally no, but there are some factors at play:

On itch.io: it won't directly affect your ranking, but it may indirectly hurt it if your changes affect the usability of the site. I don't think the changes you made will do that though.
Regarding external search engines like Google: if you remove content from the page that would otherwise be used to help people find the page through search queries then you "may" (there are no certainties with Google) hurt how it ranks on a search engine results page. Once again, I don't think the change you made will really affect things. You did hide "More information" which could be a negative signal, but I wouldn't really worry about it.

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Green Frisbee Games5 years ago

Great, thanks for the information!

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