Is hidden rotating text indexed?
steven wrote:Hi
if we have a page with text that is initially hidden, but rotated through and shown using javascript, will that text be properly indexed by Google? For example, the mint homepage (http://www.mint.com/) has both text in the top 1/2 of the page and in the testimonials that is rotated through. Is all of that content indexed?
The short answer is: probably. Google still doesn't handle hidden DIVs very well. In rare cases, they can be seen as cloaked content, but in most cases, the crawlers just view them as part of the entire page. Google won't crawl the AJAX-style tabs ("#accounts", etc.) as individual pages, and is more likely to lump all of the content together.
A focused "site:" query on your home-page seems to suggest that some of your hidden tab text is being indexed:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:mint.com+"All+together+now"
