- View state is nothing but an ASP.Net way to keep and maintain form data between server request and response. There is a hidden text box which carries this information on the page.
- Since some search engine crawlers only read the top x number of characters of a page, having view state at the top of the page could affect your page rankings
- There are a number of different ways that you can minimize the affect of view state on your page rankings:
- Eliminate view state from your pages if it is not necessary
- If view state is necessary, be sure that view state is at the bottom of the page and as small as possible
- Scott Hanselman outlines a method to zip / compress view state
- Eliminate view state from your pages if it is not necessary
SEO Tip – View State in ASP.Net
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