Any opinions about a slide panel?
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Can I get some opinions about the slide panel that you can view at http://www.luxurysarasotarealestate.com/ (on the right-side wall, click on the 'sarasota real estate' tab to open)? I see it as a way to add quality copy to the homepage without cluttering the design. Any thoughts on its SEO value? From those with a web design background, any thoughts on how difficult it is to implement?
Btw, viewing the page source, it is:
<a class="slide_panel_toggle">Open</a>
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Alex- Great question. Nice website. You guys did a nice job on the design and the structure and the content. Lots of solid content in the sitemap....... The answer is yes. It can be indexed correctly. You will want to test it. When I am using wordpress, I actually test the slide panel content to make sure it is getting indexed correctly with the seo plug in. You should do the same to make sure it isnt hiding behind the code.
We have had some sliders not work correctly to show text and show up as images.......so in that case for a short term solution, we have enhanced the meta tag description and alt tags to make sure it maximizes seo value.
We have also found that some sliders don't index on the home page but we can get them to show up on other secondary pages.....but make sure that you don't have the same content on every page , as it will show up as duplicate content.
One other thing.....don't plan on alot of people clicking on the slider....from our testing with over 30 websites that use a slider like that, on the right hand side, less than 7% of the visitors actually clicked on them....we found that most users didn't know there was hidden text....
Hope this helps.
Mark
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