Hidden Divs / Google Only Caching Part of Index Page

Discussion in 'Reviews' started by tracker, Mar 13, 2009.

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    My site is http://www.sikhism.com. If you take a look at the homepage, you can see there is a photo banner and featured material across the top of the page, a vertical menu of text links on the left-hand side, and then a page of content under the title "Sikhism Introduction". For some of the page content, I use hidden divs that can be toggled in order to provide more information while keeping the page compact.

    If you go to google.com and search for the keyword "sikhism", you'll see my site is the fourth or fifth listed. If you click on Google's "Cached" link for my site, you'll see that Google caches all the material across the top of the page as well as the vertical menu on the left, but the page content itself is completely missing. Since most of my "sikhism" keywords are in the page content, I suspect this might be very detrimental to SEO.

    Why is the page content not being cached? I was told the use of hidden divs as deployed in this manner does not affect SEO. But not only are the hidden divs not being cached, the entire page content is not being cached. I am not an SEO or Googlebot expert, so I am wondering what could be the cause. Could the Googlebot have reached the kilobyte limit of what it can cache before it gets to the content? If not, do you have any other ideas? I'm willing to get rid of the hidden divs if need be, but I don't want to lose them if something else is the problem.

    Thanks for your help.
     
    tracker, Mar 13, 2009 IP
  2. 2advance

    2advance Well-Known Member

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    Nice site. The header image looks good and attractive but the style of the title looks odl and simple, try to add with some more graphics on that..
     
    2advance, Mar 14, 2009 IP
  3. GeeOne

    GeeOne Well-Known Member

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    The photo of 'Suvarna Mandir' looks good at header.
    You must try with other color and font for the title.
    I can understand being a Dharmik Site the text would be more.
    Try to reduce the size of space below header, lot of space can be seen empty there.
    Good luck :)
     
    GeeOne, Mar 14, 2009 IP