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Is this considered hidding the text from search engines or it is safe to use?

by Ani86
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HI,

I want to use this dreamwaver extension on my website but first I want to know if its SEO friendly or not so I wont hurt my site.

HTML5 Tabbed Panels - Dreamweaver Extension

I have scanned it on Spider Simulator tool Search Engine Spider Simulator




And it shows that spiders can access the content in the tabbed boxes and can read and index them.

My question is this: When you click on tab 2 or 3 it hides the first tab and shows the tab you clicked on. It's like a layered structure. It hides the first tab then shows the next one. I want to know if this will be considered as hidden text by Google or other search engines?

It hides the content from visitors but in the Spider Simulator Tool it shows that spiders can read all the text. I want to be sure that I am not doing anything wrong or outside Google's guidelines.

Can you please take a moment and inspect the tool and let me know if its safe to use as far as hiding the and showing the tabs.
#considered #engines #hidding #safe #search #seo #text
  • Profile picture of the author AdShark Marketing
    Search engines understand content exists in tabbed content. If it's regular useful content (not keyword stuffed or spam) you'll be okay.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by AdShark Marketing View Post

      Search engines understand content exists in tabbed content.
      ...unless it's complex javascript. All tabs are not equal.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ani86
        Hi all. Thanks for the reply. I know that the content is readable by bots. I have tested is. What I want to know is this. Since its using layered based technology to hide and show the content when clicked. Is this considered as hiding the content? Or its only hiding from human visitors?
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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by Ani86 View Post

          Hi all. Thanks for the reply. I know that the content is readable by bots. I have tested is. What I want to know is this. Since its using layered based technology to hide and show the content when clicked. Is this considered as hiding the content? Or its only hiding from human visitors?
          I've already explained the spamming part. Don't spam the tabs.

          Google doesn't care If you have tabs on your page, they do care about stuffing keywords & hiding those stuffed keywords on the page.

          There's a huge difference between stuffed keywords & legit content.

          BTW, that Spider Simulator tool is a mess to look at compared to the Firefox web/dev plugin (easier on the eyes).
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          • Profile picture of the author Ani86
            Originally Posted by yukon View Post

            I've already explained the spamming part. Don't spam the tabs.

            Google doesn't care If you have tabs on your page, they do care about stuffing keywords & hiding those stuffed keywords on the page.

            There's a huge difference between stuffed keywords & legit content.

            BTW, that Spider Simulator tool is a mess to look at compared to the Firefox web/dev plugin (easier on the eyes).
            i was saying something else but thanks anyways. i will check that tool out
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      • Profile picture of the author AdShark Marketing
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        ...unless it's complex javascript. All tabs are not equal.
        True, but I was referring to the context above, that spiders can see the content. My reference was more-so that they understand tabs/hidden content are used in this manner for the design and user experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Google will see all the text in each of those tabs, you can prove that by using this Firefox plugin with the 3 settings mentioned below.

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    Originally Posted by yukon View Post

    You can get a web developer plugin for firefox (free) that will simulate a Google Cache (text version).

    Download the browser plugin.
    • Disable all javascript
    • Disable all images
    • Disable all styles
    Download that web/dev Firefox plugin, use the 3 plugin settings mentioned, then visit this URL below, you'll see exactly what text/links Google will be looking at when they crawl your page.
    • hxxp://www.flashdevelopment24.com/Extensions/21700/demo_1.html

    Change hxxp to http in the URL.

    What you do with that plugin decides If it's spammy or not. In other words don't stuff the second/third tabs with keywords, use legit content. You can still have keywords in those hidden tabs, just don't spam out the page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
    Probably only the latter. You could attempt to send a support question to Google though, I've actually had a few responded to reasonably. You should be fine though unless you're stuffing a tab with keywords instead of content, as mentioned above.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by seonutshell View Post

      Like the good old bad old days (highlight this post)
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      Tabs don't have to be spammy, that's all decided by the webmaster. Some people are spammy, others aren't.

      A good example of a legit tab setup is having a video on the first tab & the video transcription on the 2nd tab, or the other way around, video on 2nd tab with video description, reference links, etc...

      There's plenty of legit reason to use tabs.

      Example, Youtube has tabs/sliders below their videos with hidden text.
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  • Profile picture of the author FranksToys
    As long as you aren't trying to abuse the system you will be OK.

    What I mean is dont spam the tabs as Yukon said. Make sure that the tabs make sense and you aren't keyword stuffing.
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