Hello,

Dotnetnuke adds a super long viewstate at the beginning of every page ... this is not good for SEO ...

Is there a work around?

Thanks,

Actually this is pretty much a myth regarding seo and viewstate there is little or no evidence to prove whether viewstate has any effect on SEO. Google has no problems indexing very large pages - and is fully aware of how hidden variables like viewstate work.

Having said this - if you are really loosing sleep over this - you might consider switching viewstate handling in your host settings from page to memory based - this removes where the viewstate is stored - and can lead to some performance gains - HOWEVER - it can also potentially cause issues especially on shared hosting systems so it is something that you would need to test out carefully.

Westa

if its a SEO myth i will not worry about it ... thank you all