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Accordions in SEO: Did Google Lie About Ranking Hidden Content?

Mar 19, 20258 minSeason 1Ep. 623
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E623: Google publicly claimed that text hidden within accordions or tabs or other expandable elements was treated equally as text that is fully visible.

In other words, SEOs and web developers could use these expandable elements carefree and not have to worry if using them would hurt rankings and visibly within Google.

So, a bunch of SEOs set out to test this claim.

With some rigorous experimentation, what they found shocked the search engine optimization and web development world.

⭐️ Source: https://seosherpa.com/seo-experiments/

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00:00 Introduction to the Hidden Text Experiment
00:09 Google's Stance on Hidden Text
02:44 SearchPilot's Hidden Text Experiment
04:02 Reboot's Hidden Text Experiment and Personal Views
06:42 Conclusion and Recommendations

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