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How will search engines treat this type of text?

by Steve327
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Hi all,

I'm building a website that will have many articles displaying screenshots with clickable buttons that pop up text describing sections of the screenshot. A similar example can be found here: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/facebook101/3.3

These articles will have around 150 words of introducing the screenshot plus another 50-150 words of text in each of the 8-10 pop-ups. Therefore, the pop-up text will represent over 80% of the total page text.

I'm wondering if search engines will treat the pop-up text regularly as if it were normally part of the article, or will the fact that it's contained in a pop-up like this will devalue it in some way. I tested it by doing a site search of the exact pop-up text from the GCFLearnfree article above and it didn't list the page containing the pop-up text in the results at all. Based on that, it seems like google didn't even count the text.

Also... Any suggestions on how my developer can implement these pop-up buttons to maximize the value of the text would be greatly appreciated?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Your example is SEO friendly.

    Do a browser page search for each of the example popups (text) on the Google cache (text version).

    Example, search for: You can use the search bar to search for friends, Facebook Pages, Apps, and more on the Google cache (text version).

    Make sure you look at the text version of the cache & not the full version of the cache (two completely different things).
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve327
      Awesome. Thanks a ton!
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Steve327 View Post

        Awesome. Thanks a ton!
        Your welcome.

        That screenshot image map/popup is actually a cool idea. That would be handy for tutorials.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    I wouldn't care about whether the popup text gets indexed or not as the introductory text is enoigh to rank your site for your target keywords.
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    ONE HOUR INDEXING - STOP WASTING MONEY ON LINKS GOOGLE NEVER FINDS
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by SEO Power View Post

      I wouldn't care about whether the popup text gets indexed or not as the introductory text is enoigh to rank your site for your target keywords.
      The popup text in the OP example is clearly important keywords that would look out of place in an article.
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