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Collapsible sections - content
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**Hi,****I am looking to improve the aesthetics of some pages on my website by adding written content into collapsible tabs. I was wondering whether the content that is ‘hidden’ by tabs is given less weight by Google from the perspective of SEO? **Some articles I have read suggest that tabbed content is weighted equally with the content which is already immediately visible to the user, but others suggest that this may not be the case. **Please, can I request opinions on the matter? Any advice would be greatly appreciated, many thanks.**Katarina
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True Google said this and a lot of tests out there proof that what Google says is not true for 100% but like I said, not a showstopper.
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Google has said that they index & rank content in Accordions and tabs fully. They have also said when on mobile, content hidden in accordions, tabs, etc for user experience purposes will be given full weight and not demoted like it was in the past.
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You can allways read that they are equal, even from google since we are in a mobile first world. it is not the same, it maybe true that it is ok to have some stuff hidden in anywhay. It will not hurt your rankings, you may never see any loss.
But if you have hidden content and there is a page with equal content visible, the other page may rank instead of you for phrases in these texts. Of course it depends on more things. But what does it mean? Don't hide the important stuff and dont hide everything. Whatever makes sense for the user and his device, but be sure he could see it / google bot as well. Not a showstopper
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