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    • Business.com
      Business.com last edited by

      If I have a page that has an area on the page that acts like a widget and has three different tabs. These tabs provide 3 different types of information relevant to the page subject matter. By default when someone goes to the page one of the tabs is showing but you have to click on the others to see the info on them.

      Is it OK to use domain.com/topic#TAB1, domain.com/topic#TAB2, domain.com/topic#TAB3 to create shortcut links so that people can land on the page and have that predetermined tab showing.

      I'm wondering what search engines might think. Essentially all the content of all three tabs is there for people to see but they'd have to click to see the other tabs. I don't consider the content to be hidden. But I'd like to hear people's thoughts.

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      • StalkerB
        StalkerB last edited by

        Safe!

        http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-using-the-hash

        Everything after the # is ignored (pretty much).

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        • joseph.chambers
          joseph.chambers @StalkerB last edited by

          but it's still user friendly.

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