content hidden Invisible To Spiders

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content hidden Invisible To Spiders

lowlow

3:43 pm on Feb 23, 2010 (gmt 0)

Hey guys,

I recently noticed my content is hidden to spiders (as if written in javascript) but I only use plain text/html and no image text. It was originally not hidden and I have many other blogs using the same theme without a problem. I've disabled all plugins to NO avail. I really can't remember the last thing I did before the content became invisible to spiders.

Could someone please take a look at the source to see if I'm missing something please. I don't know what to look for that could be hiding the content to spiders?

Thanks,
Lou

[edited by: tedster at 3:51 pm (utc) on Feb 23, 2010]
[edit reason] no personal links, thanks [/edit]

phranque

12:29 am on Feb 24, 2010 (gmt 0)

have you tried a "Fetch as Googlebot" [googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com]?

lowlow

12:59 am on Feb 24, 2010 (gmt 0)

No but can't wait for that to be released. Unless it already is? I couldn't find it on that page.

mattur

2:32 am on Feb 24, 2010 (gmt 0)

"Fetch as Googlebot" is part of Google Webmaster Tools (in the "Labs" section on the LHS). You'll need to register your site if you haven't already:

[google.com...]

jomaxx

3:50 am on Feb 24, 2010 (gmt 0)

Let's start with the symptom... What specifically makes you think the content is invisible to spiders?

lowlow

3:53 pm on Feb 24, 2010 (gmt 0)

Fixed.. I hadn't specified height or width attributes to my header image and somehow it was covering my content.

Thanks to all above and webmasterworld

g1smd

9:20 am on Mar 1, 2010 (gmt 0)

It would not have been 'hidden' to spiders. They don't 'view' a page; they read the source code. Visiting the Google cache for the page and selecting 'show text only' would have shown they can see the text.