Ajax tabs on site

[conalt]

Hello,

On a webpage I have multiple tabs, each with their own specific content.

Now these AJAX/JS tabs, if Google only finds the first tab when the page loads the content would be too thin.

What do you suggest as an implementation? With Google being able to crawl and render more JS nowadays, but they deprecated AJAX crawling a while back.

I was maybe thinking of doing a following implementation where when JS is disabled, the tabs collapse under each other with the content showing. With JS enabled then they render as tabs. This is usually quite a common implementation for tabbed content plugins on Wordpress as well.

Also, Google had commented about that hidden/expandable content would count much less, even with the above JS fix.

Look forward to your thoughts on this.

Thanks,

Conrad

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi,

You are quite correct that Google can see, but pays very little attention, to tabbed content. Unless it carries something like tech specific information for a product that might not be of interest to everyone, or something that might get duplicated, I tend to avoid them.

If you have information the tabs that is unique and that you feel Google should be using, then I would take it out of them. I wouldn't try to find workarounds to this.

Google say that if content is important to the page, don't hide it.

-Andy

[conalt]

Thank you Andy.

Yes definitely useful information that adds up to the content of the whole page. It is just to balance between design and to have a shorter version of the page (instead of a longer version without tabs).

Interesting to see more responses on this but you are right.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Just keep in mind that people would much prefer to scroll to find something than not see it at all.

Perhaps exchange the tabs for in-page anchors that will scroll someone down to a particular part of the page from the top? I have seen Google index these anchors as well, so word them carefully, and you could gain extra from doing so.

-Andy