Yoast denounces website sliders

Sliders, a series of pictures that scroll automatically, are used on many sites to get multiple images on a home page in a small amount of space. Do sliders help your website or hurt it? Thijs de Valk, behavioral scientist in the Yoast organization, creators of the Yoast SEO plugin and other WordPress products, recently wrote a post on the Yoast.com blog giving evidence for harm done by sliders. He suggests that there’s harm to usability, harm to SEO and harm to the site’s professional image when sliders are used. That’s not just his opinion. He includes quotes from many experts... [...]