Flashbender Asks:
If you are using jquery (or any other framework) tabs / accordians to dynamically show/hide content is the content that is initially hidden indexed?
I’ve had discussions with web planners and marketing types about this and they are adamant that tabs hurts SEO.
My research shos that the spiders read the content and don’t give a shit about display:none or hidden and index the content normally. The only possible exception is if display:hidden is inline, this could cause problems, but if it is in class then there is not really any issues.
What’s your take on hidden content and SEO?
My Advice:
As long as the tabs content is written to the page i.e. not generated on the fly then yes it will be indexed by Google. I believe Googles guidelines state that if you can justify the content being hidden to one of your competitors then its valid. Tabbed menus are 1 example of where I believe this is justified as at some point it is intended to be read by the user.
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