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Tabbed Content--on product pages

by LornaLadd
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Hi,
I'm pretty new on here, looking forward to being part of the community! Question:

Tabbed Content--on product pages--usually used for information like Ingredients ** FAQ** instructions

A while ago SEOs were telling us NOT to use tabbed content because it was bad for SEO, that google couldn't read it. So even though good for user, bad for SEO. But now I have read that if you use A Javascript function that's part of 'HTML5 History API' calledwindow.history.pushState() that we should be good to go. (I am not a coder so I have no idea what that means.)

QUESTION: Do you have any insight into this? Will it hurt SEO if we do this, or will it be ok?

Here's a couple of references:
https://moz.com/blog/create-crawlabl...sing-pushstate
Bing Offers Recommendations for SEO-Friendly AJAX: Suggests HTML5 pushState
#content—on #pages #product #tabbed #tabbed content
  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Originally Posted by LornaLadd View Post

    QUESTION: Do you have any insight into this? Will it hurt SEO if we do this, or will it be ok?
    Not really, but if you're going with tabbed browsing it's better to do something than nothing at all. Tabbed elements are potentially already negatively affecting your SEO efforts, so something like this can't really hurt that much more.
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    Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Tabbed content is not a problem as long as the text shows up on the Google cache (text version), proof Google can find the text.

    Tabbed content is common, even drop down site navigation works the same way as tabbed content, again, very common on the web. This Warrior Forum webpage has hidden content in the nav links, it's been like that for years. Nobody cares.

    If you go doing obvious keyword stuffing & link spam, that's a problem but it has nothing to do with tabbed content, that's just a webmaster spamming a webpage.
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