What do search engines see?

    • This plugin puts the quotes in three places:

    1. In the widget (rotating text)
    2. In an index page which lists excerpts of all testimonials
    (fixed text with permalink) (orphan page)
    3. In individual pages which list one entire testimonial
    (fixed text with permalink) (subsidiary to orphan page)

    QUESTION: Which of these do search engines see?

    When considering SEO, I would LOVE for the index page and the individual pages to be searchable, but NOT the widget that’s rotating the text with CSS.

    If the widget is searchable and on many pages, then it would dilute the unique page content.

    Thank you!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/testimonial-rotator/

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  • Thread Starter JeremyBorum

    (@jeremyborum)

    Using this keyword density analyzer:
    https://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-density/

    On this page with very little text:
    https://www.guerrillafilmscoring.com/endorsements/

    It seems to show that the rotating quotes are seen as page text, meaning if the quote rotator is on multiple pages it dilutes the unique content of each page and makes each page less distinct.

    I think Testimonial Rotator could be very useful for adding text content to pages for SEO purposes, because only a fraction of the text is seen at one time. Lots of searchable content, but you still have clean pages.

    I think it could be very harmful to SEO if it’s on many pages of the same site, because from the engine’s perspective they would all have basically identical content.

    I would love a little more insight on this. I was planning to put hundreds of quotes on many different pages so it appears to never repeat, but I think this may be a bad idea for SEO.

    Anybody?

    Plugin Author Hal Gatewood

    (@halgatewood)

    Hi @jeremyborum – Hoping a good SEO can chime in here. I don’t have a good answer for you. I’ll tweet the link and see if anybody has the knowledge to answer.

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