Google On How To Tell If Google Sees Tabbed Navigation – Search Engine Roundtable
Did you ever want to validate to see if Google or other search engines can see your tabbed (hidden in a tab) navigation or content? Well, John Mueller from Google listed some ideas on how to do so.
The question came from Remy Sharp who asked on Bluesky:
Curious: is there any real world research showing that (Google and other) SEO crawlers can navigate JavaScript (or even separately CSS based) tab systems? i.e. to expose the initially hidden tab and navigate it (perhaps if there’s links inside the tab panel)
Here is John’s response:
AFAIK none of these click on things to discover DOM elements that load additional content under the same URL. If content in a tab is loaded in the DOM, then it could be indexed (though imo it’s still a bad practice if it’s not immediately visible to users – they’ll just bounce).
You can verify how Google sees the “HTML” / DOM of a page by using the Inspect URL tool in Search Console. And for anything that loads with separate URLs, make sure to use a…
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