Elementor is a popular page editor that helps WordPress website owners build and design their pages with ease. Offering features to allow users to personalise their websites without learning HTML/CSS coding languages such as CSS/HTML. Its drag-and-drop interface makes Elementor user-friendly even for beginners and non-technical people, and customization features like column amounts/widths and widget options allow designers to craft unique styles on their pages.
One drawback of using Elementor is its tendency to add extra code, potentially degrading site speed and search engine optimization. Search engines prioritise sites that load quickly as these provide superior user experiences.
Additionally, too many widgets or other elements on a page can dramatically increase its loading time, so it is crucial that this factor be taken into consideration when choosing a page builder.
Elementor can also interfere with in-content ads on your website, disrupting AdSense or Mediavine ads that you run through AdWords or Mediavine and preventing them from showing. This could decrease revenue if running ads.
Elementor can be detrimental for SEO as its popup content doesn’t appear in Google’s index DOM, making Google disregard it. While this might work for marketing purposes such as discounts and mailing list subscription, if used for core navigation it could damage SEO negatively.
Elementor should also not be used for SEO due to potential conflicts with other plugins. If another plugin uses the same jQuery library as Elementor, it could potentially interfere with some of its own functions and compromise performance or lead to errors and bugs on your website.
Good news is that other page builders offer solutions if you want to optimize your site for SEO while preventing plugin conflicts. In this way, you can still enjoy using widgets and themes you love for designing the perfect website design.
As with any tool, it’s essential to understand its limitations before beginning use of an external plugin. If you’re new to web development, tutorials and guides may provide invaluable help; otherwise it is recommended to test out any plugin on a staging website first so as to detect errors or glitches before moving it live and making any necessary changes or rolling back later on if necessary – plus referring back to revision history to recover old design iterations for greater flexibility and support if any issues arise. Finally, choose an external plugin with frequent updates and support so assistance can be available should an issue arise when problems occur – an internal team would provide helpful assistance should any issues arise with regards to its limitations or implementation on live website development projects.
