How to maintain SEO while using JQuery to show hidden divs

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Kieran Andrews picture Kieran Andrews · Nov 5, 2010 · Viewed 8.4k times · Source

Im working with jquery ui on many of my websites and I am concerned that any content that is in hidden divs that will be used for a dialog is not search engine friendly and I would like to find out if:

Is content in hidden divs searched/indexed by google?

What is the best practice for using jQuery UI dialogs/tabs or other hidden elements on a webpage? (to ensure the best results for SEO)

Answer

Dennis Burton picture Dennis Burton · Nov 5, 2010

This is the guidance that google provides.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769

Hidden content is also mentioned here:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66353

Remember the spiders don't execute your js

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