Can google crawl text in jquery sliders?
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We are redesigning our website and want to present a fair amount of text within jquery sliders.
Will google crawl this text or is it treated the same way as actual script?
Perhaps there is a way to just have the text as plain html but use jquery to display it?
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I'm linking to all the content.
The plugin is not live anywhere yet to use WMT.
Thanks for your response, I sincerely appreciate it!
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You would need to use scawl as google bot featuer to see if it can see the txt, i have no idea what the pugin you are using does.
text inside a display:none element will get crawled, but you maust make that text displayable somehow, when the user clicks on somthing or via a script somehw, you can not just hide it and never show it, thet will get you a penalty.
If you can see the text in google bot tool in WMTs paste it here. as somply being a string in the script is not good enouth it has to be in the html. ,
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Sorry for my ignorance, but by saying that you would use a script to display the content, do you mean that you would not be using {display:none;} tag?
I am researching the use of a Jquery plugin for WP that will be used on the home page of a website and several of the main NAV links will be inside this plugin. It is important that the non displayed content and Titles are parsed without a downgrading of their content.
I will be linking to all of the content inside each tab, all of the content is legit, I am in no way trying to hide anything, we need the function for layout; so I do not believe we are at risk of the 30 day penalty for trying to hide content in hidden text. But, I need to ensure that the content from the boxes that are not displayed will be parsed without being downgraded by the search engines for being hidden.
The Plugin is the JqueryUI plugin, the content shows up as a non ordered list on the Source. I can see the non ordered list and the content of all the boxes in the source. The JQuery plugin uses the {Display:none} tag to hide the closed content boxes. *On the website though when I try to highlight a "closed" box's Title (The text displayed in the tabs of the plugin) I am not able to highlight these words, instead the website treats them like an image that can be dragged with the bg color. The latter is what concerns me most.
My main issue is that I need to know if all the text in the Title and content of the non-displayed boxes will be parsed as it would be if it was on the page without the Jquery plugin.
The second thing I would like to determine is if there could be a lesser value attributed to the content inside of the hidden boxes.
Third, is there a way to program this optimally so that it works for use in the website and for the SE's without using risky programming?
Thanks all!
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Good point Alan 'via script".
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If you have the text on the html, but only display it via script, that should be fine, as long as you do display it. If you dont you may eventualy get flaged for hidden keywords
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