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Nope, no effect, as you suspect, Eddie. That kind of attempt at copy-blocking doesn't change the way the content is available in the DOM of the page (which is why it's so ineffective) so has no effect on crawling/indexing. You can prove this for yourself by going to a page and right-clicking to select the browser Inspect mode. This mode shows the actual rendered DOM of the page that the search engines are reading, and you'll see the content is easily accessible. The other option is to do a Fetch and Render request from within the site's Google Search Console and it will also show you what content Google can see. That what you were looking for? Paul

Yep, they are not patient. They need to consider that they are arriving at the battle 5, 10, 15 or 20 years late.  Existing websites have been working all of that time and Google will not push them aside in favor of a noob who has invested very little in comparison. If they want to see results they need to invest enough to become competitive.   It's no different than me deciding that I am going to challenge Anthony Joshua and expect to step into the ring with him after three months of work.

Thanks for the responses. It was my opinion that technically it should not affect anything but with the current direction of SEO and the potential affects of Engagement as ranking factors I thought it might be interesting to discuss. Appreciate your comments....thanks

Hi Eddie, This URL (www.widgetcompany.co.uk/widget-gallery/coloured-widgets/red-widgets) is really looking spammy. Second URL is perfect you should go with that URL for the keyword "red widgets". Thanks