[Cory RParticipant]

I’m setting up some large content pages & wanted to make sure they are SEO optimized. I’ve read about HIDDEN or NON-ACTIVE content in short codes like ACCORDIONS & TABS being detrimental to the SEO of that particular content.

Please explain if the current short codes are SEO optimized or if using something like the TABLE OF CONTENTS is better.

Also, if the accordions & tabs are not best for SEO, is there a workaround to satisfying search engines while having hidden content?

[RadModerator]

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[Branko KParticipant]

My advice is, create the website with accordions and tabs, and use Yast SEO plugin to check on it.

[SupportMember]

Hey guys,

As told above, all collapsible content and accordion text are indexed, so you don’t have to worry about that. But yes Yoast is a great SEO plugin to help you with this.

Cheers.

[Cory RParticipant]

Ok great thanks for the fb everyone. Can you then link directly to a specific tab or accordion?

For example, link to a page with 5 tabs where a specific tab or accordion is active rather than just the default? I’ve done this in the past but not with this theme so if anyone can give a quick best practice for doing this that would be great.

[ChristianModerator]

Hey Cory,

You’ll need a plugin for linkable tabs like http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-responsive-tabs/

We’ll take note of this as feature request and might implement linkable tabs and accordions in a future release.

Thanks.

[RocaLabsParticipant]

I have similar concerns. Have any SEO improvement been done to Accordion in the brand new 4.0 version?

[Paul RModerator]

Hi,

Accordion still works the same in version 4.0

Please refer to the link below for more information regarding hidden content

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-hiding-content-17136.html

Thanks

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