Has anybody had any experience with Google in terms of hiding divs on the initial page load? I know G doesnt like to see keywords in invisible divs, but what if there is a good reason for this? Are offending websites checked by a human editor or is it a Google Bot that decides whether you are keyword stuffing or not? Heres my dilemna... on my Nights Out page take a look at the right column. When a user clicks Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday, etc. the nights out on that day are listed. The only problem is that I use AJAX to list nights out that dont display on the initial page load. However I believe it would be much better for SEO if this information would load *all* of the nights out on the initial page load (then I can hide/show the divs whn the user clicks a day), so then I have all of the nights out listed for G to spider. I wouldnt be keyword stuffing simply because the content is useful for my visitors, and they (eventually) can see the information... but would Google see it this way? Would I be penalized?
I am sure that if you do not spam (many keywords or something like that) in your hided divs than google will do nothing.
any idea whether probable spamming sites are checked over by a human editor? i mean automated, it will look like keyword stuffing, but im sure as soon as a human editor takes a look he will see their is a valid reason for the hidden divs.
if ur site does get banned, email google to review. thats when the human comes in. not sure about that if it aren't banned yet.
Why not make links page or directory page with the urls for each one and link it to front page. If more than 50 links make directory page and under 50 links on each page.
Google frowns on hidden text. Having said that, Google seems to have a hard time spotting hidden text. You may be risking very little, but if there is an easy way to avoid hidden text I'd do so. Best wishes... Ian C