Reviews and Other Content in Tabs and SEO
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Hello,
We are redesigning our product page and have considered putting our customer reviews in a 'tab' on the page, so it is not visible to the user until they click on the tab.
Are there any SEO implications of this? Right now, we do have problems with this because we use a third party tool for our reviews and they are in javascript, so they do not get crawled, but going forward we will be using our native platform. We want the text of the reviews to get crawled and indexed.
Thanks.
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Hi there,
This isn't a problem, and is quite a common way of presenting content on the "same page" as far as the source code goes without having it all appear on page load. Where this would get you into trouble is if you are presenting a lot of content behind different tabs, or if that content was vastly different to the topic of the page that appears on page load.
If you are using CSS to tab between the content, none of it is uncrawlable.
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Your another tab, it's a different page or a hidden div?
In the first case, they not affect seo, simply you have two different pages (Even if it's the same page with different parameters) collecting SEO. At the second case, your reviews will be in the main page, pointing to the seo of it.
I think the second idea it's the better one, but i cannot know if google can penalize you for have a hidden div. As programmer, i think the best idea it's having all the structure on some divs, and change visibility with JS on a button. That's can be crawled (Because content are here) and the charging times are better, if you doesn't have too many hidden content.
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Hey,
Just from a buying stand point i would think that putting the reviews on the same page as the product would be more beneficial for the potential customer? If I'm on the product page looking to buy something i would want the review right there.
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