# Span added per defualt as Text - Makes it difficult for SEO optimazation

**URL:** <https://forum.builder.io/t/span-added-per-defualt-as-text-makes-it-difficult-for-seo-optimazation/1109>\
**Category:** Technical Questions\
**Created:** [October 5, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/span-added-per-defualt-as-text-makes-it-difficult-for-seo-optimazation/1109 "2021-10-05T14:12:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anafs91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Anafs91](https://forum.builder.io/u/Anafs91)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/span-added-per-defualt-as-text-makes-it-difficult-for-seo-optimazation/1109/1 "2021-10-05T14:12:55Z")

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Found out yesterday, after having a demo with a SEO consultant that we should use as little as possible with regard to SEO.  
This made me and the team quite confound as a text component in [Builder.io](http://Builder.io) are using span as default.

So, before we begin our task to create custom components to get rid of the in our Text.  
Is this a functionality to add as default in Text component going to come back and haunt us from a SEO perspective?

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**Author:** ![steve](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.builder.io/steve/32/78_2.png) [@steve](https://forum.builder.io/u/steve)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/span-added-per-defualt-as-text-makes-it-difficult-for-seo-optimazation/1109/2 "2021-10-05T14:40:37Z")

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Hi @Anafs91 - you absolutely can customize and replace our built-in text component to meet any requirements you have (SEO or otherwise). Re: SEO, this is always a high priority for us and we have yet to hear a concern until now that a span around text can cause SEO issues, but maybe there is more context here that I am missing. Are they any resources you can link to that further explain why this would be an issue for SEO that we can look into?

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**Author:** ![Anafs91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Anafs91](https://forum.builder.io/u/Anafs91)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/span-added-per-defualt-as-text-makes-it-difficult-for-seo-optimazation/1109/3 "2021-10-11T07:42:14Z")

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It is not the HTML standard to use for my understanding around text.

Ex. if we create a Big Text components that will create a h1 tag, and according to SEO standard there should be only one on each page. It something we will have to take a look a in the team I am part of. Which means that we have a bit of refactoring to do in our project to reduce our use of Big Text components.