If I use a java script to hide and unhide text based upon how the user hovers the mouse on the web-page is all the text searchable from Google and other search engines?
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This is a web-page with 5 pictures of 5 different types of lawn mowers. We want to display different descriptions on the bottom of the web-page based upon the user hovering the mouse over the mower. We will use a java script to do this. If this search engine friendly?
It is 'searchable' by Google - but based on Googlebot's algorithm, it ignores certain types of text that are "unusable to the user". Certain types of practices may increase your keyword density - but inevitably the loophole will be closed.
It is best to simply give a good, separate, descriptive title to EVERY page (as well as the meta & keywords), and include words in the title in the body of the page. This will avoid problems in the future. The other hidden stuff (as far as your page is concerned) is simply 'eye candy' for the users.
It is 'searchable' by Google - but based on Googlebot's algorithm, it ignores certain types of text that are "unusable to the user". Certain types of practices may increase your keyword density - but inevitably the loophole will be closed.
It is best to simply give a good, separate, descriptive title to EVERY page (as well as the meta & keywords), and include words in the title in the body of the page. This will avoid problems in the future. The other hidden stuff (as far as your page is concerned) is simply 'eye candy' for the users.
Thanks for the reply. The text is unhidden when the user does a mouse over, so it is usable by the visitor. Is the Googlebot smart enough to know the text is useful and hence will index it?
If I remember a story I read about a year ago google doesn't ignore content that is made invisible by some way(other than comments anyway), but it does give large negatives for what it decides are spam content(excessive repeats of the same term, or an unrealistic large density of keywords).
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ummmm.... this thread had nothing to do with worrying about pages being indexed. You came nowhere close to answering the question asked.
I guess that you gave good advice though. Maybe you misunderstood the question (?).
It doesn't matter though. It looks like snwsnw got his answers...
Ok, maybe I jumped the gun a little... I am more worried about pages being indexed rather than a little text being searchable but having all your pages indexed is still very important. Hopefully me going off on a tangent was at least helpful to some people : )
Yes it will be indexed, and Google may ban your site if you take advantage of hiding text to trick the Google Bot. For example, if you put white text on white background Google will ban you.
I found best practice is to include it all and make it all "viewable" by default. Then use CSS to hide the specific elements you don't want viewed, and use CSS to show the content on mouse over. I try and completely avoid JavaScript all-together.
As long as all the content that is readable to the Google bot is readable by the Google Humans you should be fine, after all, Google are the biggest users of AJAX which involves a lot of dynamic text.
Is hidden/unhidden text searchable by Google?
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