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Is an Overflow SEO friendly
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Is an "overflow" (scrollbar) seo and Google friendly? I only ask because it hides part of the visible text.
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Ryan,
Why do you say z-indexing is a blackhat trick? I use it for my float bar on a few of my pages just to keep it on top, and it moves with the scrolling of the page. I'm not hiding anything with it.
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The reason I'm asking is because I have valuable links within scrollbar that I need indexed. Google last indexed it today, but if I look at the "text-only" version, it only shows the visible part of the links. Here's the page: http://www.rmtracking.com/gps-tracking-installers/gps-tracking-us.php
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Google has been looking at CSS for a while now, but I think its only to stop black hat tricks like z-indexing away filler text or using H1 tags where they're not actually headlines. An overflow:scroll is just a way of visually organizing your content, so I can't see any good reason that Google would penalize this. Of course, I don't have data to back this up so take it for what its worth.
What they could conceivably do is subtract some weight from the text inside the element with the overflow property. If there are two paragraphs on a page, one with overflow, one without, it could argued that the paragraph without the overflow scroll bars can be seen as slightly more important, since its presented in full.
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