SEO question: Google follows links contained in map info bubbles?

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Last updated by Gian Luca 4 years, 6 months ago.

Assisted by: Waqar.

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May 20, 2020 at 7:45 am #1631539

Gian Luca

I have a question: I have a website with many cpt records plotted on a map. On the page, the basic info for these records is diplayed inside info bubble on a user mouseclick. The bubbles divs are, by default, set with css property 'display:none'. Can googlebot see and follow these links? Thank you

May 20, 2020 at 9:33 am #1631727

Waqar

Hi,

Thank you for contacting us.

Although this question is related to SEO best practices in general and not Toolset plugins specifically, we do our best to guide in the right direction whenever possible.

As explained in these threads, Google's indexing is not dependant on whether the content is set with 'display: none' or 'display: block', which means that Google's bot can still see and follow those hidden links:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12482624/google-crawl-displaynone-displayblock
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10966575/seo-and-div-displaynone

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I hope this helps.

regards,
Waqar

May 20, 2020 at 10:15 am #1631757

Gian Luca

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!