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To throw some more info out there on this one. My guy just sent me a link (see attachment) to a Matt Cutts video where he explains that if you're doing this sort of design with normal web design practices, Google will not penalize the hidden text as spammy. We're currently using Display: None tag, which isn't mentioned specifically, but we think should be alright according to Matt's video. Any thoughts on this? Thanks!

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Thanks Jarno. I'll ask my guy if he's doing the HTML/CSS thing. His first attempt was using code to hide the text until someone clicked the link (tab) to reveal. I'm afraid that Google wouldn't want to index or couldn't index that content.

I'll tell him that Jarno thinks it's possible to use HTML and CSS to create the user experience I'm looking for but also to have all the text crawlable. Thanks!

Thanks Travis. We're building the page on an existing site, so there's no Wordpress, but the concept is sound. If we can't make it work where all the content on the page gets indexed, because Google doesn't like the way we're presenting the information, then we might go to something like this.

We're building a page that is going to feature over 31 people as difference makers in their field. We're unveiling one a day for an entire month. The very early mockup of the page has name, pic, some bio info, and a link to open up a new window with the full bio. I would love to have all of the bio content for all of the people on the page (and indexable), but I'm not sure how to do that while still being able to hide the full bios until they are expanded. Anybody have any tips that are SEO-friendly and/or examples of a page that is built like this and ranks well.

Thanks!

Ollan,

Thanks for the reply. That www.crisisprevention.co.uk/specialties is actually the content on the mothership site. I'm not saying US site, because, for redirection purposes, we actually did map out individual URLs to go from the old UK site to a UK "culture" on our mothership site (with /en-uk/ as the directory).

The redirects are going to the correct content. The problem is the old domain is hanging around.

Hey Altec Design,

Thanks for replying.

The Rel Canonical isn't going to help with this particular issue, because there is no separate page associated with the foreign URLs. There is only the pages on the mothership site, but they're showing under the old URLS rather than redirecting to the mothership URL.

For example...

Say someone went to www.crisisprevention.co.uk and was redirected to the mothership site, instead of being at a URL that says www.crisisprevention.com/Home, they are on a URL that says www.crisisprevention.co.uk.

If they click a link on the page... www.crisisprevention.com/EXAMPLE .... instead on going to the mothership link they stay on the old redirected link www.crisisprevention.co.uk/EXAMPLE with the new directory appended.

I don't even know how my IT team made that happen, but it can't be good.

We're definitely looking at the hreflang option for the different "cultures" on our site. That will help.

We consolidated websites. All the international sites have been brought under the roof of our mothership site based in the US: www.crisisprevention.com ... We mapped out all of the URLs and where they should  be redirected.

However, if someone types in, say, www.crisisprevention.co.uk it redirects to the mothership site, BUT  the old URL hangs around no matter what page you navigate to. I feel like it has duplicate content ramifications or worse. I would like opinions on this, so I can take my findings to IT and figure out a solution.

Here’s another example: http://www.positive-options.co.uk and another http://www.positive-options.com

Thanks Charles. This one looks good, and it certainly helps to have a personal recommendation.

Thanks Brad I'll check them out.

The staff member in Australia did not see the .com.au domain option in Godaddy.