Text hidden by Java
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We are developing a new website and intent to use Javascript to make the page more manageable on the screen with a show more / show less.
For example http://www.tanzaniaodyssey1.com/tanzania/serengeti where a large amount of the content of the page is "hidden".
from what i can see although google won't penalise us but am i right in saying that this content will not be indexed and will count for google ????
I need to make sure that this text is indexed but i also don't want to have horrendously long un-user friendly pages,
**Does any one have a way round this ? (could i put the words in a
<noscript tag="" ...<="" strong=""></p></noscript>**
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Hi,
I agree with Peter, just wanted to add something to your latest question on if you could add it to the noscript tags. Because I wouldn't do that, it's a signal which could show mostly a bad sign on that you would like to show the content.
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Text will be indexed but definitely will be "less-valued" than non-hidden text. So please put text to be visible to user without interaction if you wish all text to be indexed and searchable. There are many experiments in internet for this and here is link to some:
http://dejanseo.com.au/experiment-results-can-hidden-content-rank-well/
However it’s still the best and safest practice to show any important content and keywords in the visible part of the page.
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