Don't know if anyone can help out, but on this page
Can Google (or any other search engine) see the content that is hidden in the right splash where it says "More Posts" (click it to see everything) or can they only see the first 5 links?
Thanks!
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Yes. The 'more posts' are already added to the page as an unordered list, so the content is there to crawl. Google's pretty smart.
Typeoneerror
2009-10-20 18:09:24
Surely you mean, "Google's pretty dumb" because it sees them in the code, but they're not visible on the page.
DisgruntledGoat
2009-10-27 11:19:23
I think in the example provided, the *intention* was to have all that content there and be available, just use the space provided in the initial view. I would tend to agree with you more if it were something like pagination and the "more" was generating a page request. I get what you mean though so +1 ;)
Typeoneerror
2009-10-27 13:32:30
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Yes - Any search engine bot is going to pick it up because it is rendered to the page (IE not AJAX'd content.)
Your method is using CSS to show/hide the content which means that it is going to be visible to a spider. If you want to get a good idea of what search engines see, load up the page without any stylesheets or javascript.
As an aside, the "Banana Fall Line" image is loading really poorly because you're using a large image and scaling it down with width/height in the image tag.
Gavin Miller
2009-10-20 18:12:16
yea this page has a lot of probs, it's not my page i'm just hunting around for ideas for a redesign of my own. thanks!
Mike
2009-10-20 18:20:12
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Yes they can, but they don't.
This is to avoid spammers to create pages with dummy but hidden content just to appear in top results.
In other words, hidden content does not help you with your SEO strategy - you need everything to be visible.
Seb
2009-10-20 18:12:43
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Yes they will be able to see those links like Typeoneerror said, if you view the source of that page, you will see the links appearing in another div which is simply hidden at the start. You can use oyoy.eu use the spider simulation function.
Kentor
2009-10-22 22:03:54