: Do search engines ignore or penalize well known quotes when they are properly marked up or ? I want to add quotes from artists on my site. I know that I can put these quotes into q or

@Cooney921

Search engines won't ignore or penalise quotations, provided they're accompanied by original content (i.e. the content is not wholly or substantially a duplicate of pre-existing web content).

In fact, proper use of <q> and <blockquote> elements (with <cite> where appropriate) is arguably a good way of indicating to search engines that you're being honest about material you've taken from elsewhere.

There's no SEO difference between <q> and <blockquote>, but they do have slightly different purposes. I'd encourage you to consult the latest version of the HTML specification.

A pull quote is a visual style and not syntactically distinct from <blockquote> in terms of document structure, so there's no special HTML markup for those.

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