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Javascript carousel links and crawling with hidden div.

by michaelprise
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  • SEO
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Hi all,

I have a landing page built in JS that uses carousels to display content. Google is able to crawl all the content except content 'behind' the carousel. This makes sense since Google cannot click through the carousel to find the links. To solve the problem, I created a hidden div where all links are nested in hopes of getting Google to crawl all the links.

When I perform a site:mysite.com search and type in keywords for content that loads initially on the carousel, google returns results with those keywords in bold. Now, when I perform the same site search but using keywords behind the carousel, but in the hidden div, Google returns a result but without those keywords in bold. So obviously Google is finding this content, right? Or else Google would return an error: "you search - site:mysite.com "keyword not on the page" - did not match any documents."

My question is, do you believe I'm passing any link equity through to these pages in the hidden div?

Thanks for any help!
#carousel #crawling #div #hidden #javascript #links
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    You need to look at the Google cache (text version), that will show you what Google found on your webpage.

    Google can read some low level javascript links, but I would never count on javascript for a link I cared about.

    I can't tell you If the hidden div is a good idea or not without seeing the webpage and HTML source code. If it looks like you're hiding followed links pointing to another domain, yea, probably not a good idea. Hidden divs can be legit but again can't be specific without seeing the webpage.
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