Search optimal Tab structure?

[Hershel.Miller]

Good day,

We are in the process of starting a website redesign/development.

We will likely be employing a tabbing structure on our home page and would like to be able to capitalize on the keyword content found across the various tabs.

The tab structure will be similar to how this site achieves tabs: http://ugmo.com/

I've uploaded a screen grab of this page as the Googlebot user agent. The text "Soil Intelligence for professional Turf Managers" clicks through to this page: http://ugmo.com/?quicktabs_1=1#quicktabs-1

So I'm thinking there could be some keyword dilution there. That said Google is very much aware of the text on the quicktabs-1 page being related to the home page content: http://www.google.com/search?q=Up+your+game+with+precise+soil+moisture%2C+salinity+and+temperature+measurements.+And+in+the+process%2C+save+water%2C+resources%2C+money.+inurl%3Augmo.com&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=

Is this the best search optimal way to add keyword density on a home page with a tab structure? Or is there a better means of achieving this?

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[ninjamarketer]

Not sure if I understand your point correctly. Are you saying you will be dynamically feeding keywords on the pages with tabs?

[Hershel.Miller]

Not exactly, I'm saying each tab will have a set of keywords on them and we'd like those keywords to be accessible to spiders in an optimal manner. So let's say I have

Tab 1 - keyword copy 1

Tab 2 - keyword copy 2

Tab 3 - keyword copy 3

I want to make sure keyword copy 2 & 3 are providing keyword goodness for the home page.

Does that make sense?

[firstconversion]

is that then not just loading eveything onto 1 url and using javascript to hide the tab 2 & 3 content till someone hits it?

or something like this http://www.mendeley.com/ click on the overview, features, discover research and ipad tabs  - all that content is on the page

[Hershel.Miller]

I'm pretty sure that's what's happening.

So mendely.com is a book mark approach to tabs, as opposed to the javascript ? variable and then bookmark approach here: http://ugmo.com/?quicktabs_1=1#quicktabs-1

I can see how the content is all on the page.

Is there any dilution with the bookmark approach? To what extent is http://www.mendeley.com/#mobile different than http://www.mendeley.com/ ?