Some information about Google (and sometimes Bing) and its search engine, gathered unofficially here and there in recent days, with this week's coverage offering some answers to these questions: does Google handle Markdown pages as well as HTML pages?
Markdown should not replace HTML
On LinkedIn, someone asked John Mueller whether Google treats .md pages (that is, Markdown) differently from standard HTML pages, and more specifically whether they are properly rendered and accessible to Googlebot?
Response from the person concerned: " They are text files. They look like text files in the browser to users. If you want to create web pages, then make web pages, not text files. "
Source : LinkedIn
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Agreed!
From an SEO point of view, it's better to produce clean, accessible, well-marked HTML rather than rely on a raw text file served as-is. The risk of adopting a "Markdown for bots" approach is introducing an impoverished version of the page and making content discovery more difficult. Markdown remains very good as an internal working format. There's no problem as long as the end user receives a real page converted to HTML that is complete and coherent.
The article “Goossips SEO: Markdown & HTML” was published on the site Abondance.
