: Do links in SVG tags have a negative impact on SEO? Inspired from an answer on Stack Overflow, I've decided to use an inline SVG tag for a wordcloud I'm working on. I'll be using SVG to

@Turnbaugh106

This answer hugely depends on what you are expecting as an answer. Google has not, and will not, reveal exactly how much weight each element is worth, nor am I aware of any case study that has proven SVG as in-viable.

This answer is based on what we know and not what we hope


Google loves responsive design :: SVG scales to any resolution :: GREAT!
Google loves text content :: SVG supports text within an image :: GREAT!
Google loves page speed :: SVG are super small and fast :: GREAT!
Google understands SVG markup and a href links within :: GREAT!
Google can read the DOM :: SVG's have a DOM :: GREAT!


With everything said above it should be clear that SVG is viable and should be promoted, it is unlikely that SVG will make a huge difference but could give you a little bit of an 'edge'. A word of caution would be that you should check how many visitors visit your site using browsers that do not support SVG, as it may be recommended you introduce a fall back before phasing it out completely.

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