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Does show/hide element with javascript impact SEO
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Hi I am developing an ecommerce site and want to place text on all category and home page. The challenge is that 300 words of text for the pages does not fit into the design appropriately especially on the home page. If I were to use a show/hide element with javascript would this be seen as spam or a trick to the search engines.
I do not think it is spam as it will be actual content for the site and the visitor can view it if they click on the show button.
Would love to hear your thoughts?
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Thanks, appreciate your thoughts
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Ennovation and Malcolm are right - search engines will see the entire text, as long as the JS is just being used for show/hide (users without JS enabled will see the same thing).
As long as there is an option to show the text (i.e. it's not completely hidden from users), and the text itself isn't keyword-stuffed or spammy, I can't see a reason why search engines would consider it spam.
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Google see the text anyway as it is hard coded into the html, the JS is only used on the front end to show the user so they can hide/show the text.
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You can make with js a expand link or read more....
That will be ok... Search engines will see the entire text where as users will have to click to see the entire text...
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