Comments on: Thickbox, accessibility and search engine optimisation. http://www.wiseguysonly.com/2009/02/22/thickbox-accessibility-and-search-engine-optimisation/ PHP,MySQL and jQuery Developer Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:13:48 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Harvey Carpenter http://www.wiseguysonly.com/2009/02/22/thickbox-accessibility-and-search-engine-optimisation/comment-page-1/#comment-5775 Harvey Carpenter Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:13:48 +0000 http://www.wiseguysonly.com/?p=205#comment-5775 Hi Tim, Thanks for the article :) In general, would you say overlaying a Thickbox (or Fancybox) window on the homepage is okay for SEO? I'd like to do something like the "All about law" website, but am worried it'll harm my SEO. Cheers! Hi Tim,

Thanks for the article :)

In general, would you say overlaying a Thickbox (or Fancybox) window on the homepage is okay for SEO? I’d like to do something like the “All about law” website, but am worried it’ll harm my SEO.

Cheers!

]]> By: Tim http://www.wiseguysonly.com/2009/02/22/thickbox-accessibility-and-search-engine-optimisation/comment-page-1/#comment-917 Tim Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:45:02 +0000 http://www.wiseguysonly.com/?p=205#comment-917 Hi David, Referrer direction would definitely work from an SEO perspective, but I wanted to account for the scenario where Thickbox was either not supported - maybe some moble devices / non JS agent (including bots). It's a quick fix for Thickbox not being present with the added bonus of making the content a little more SEO friendly and not orphaning the page when real users come to visit. As an aside, some versions of IE7 have managed to break Thickbox. The bug occurs because there are versions of IE7 reporting themselves as IE6 which confuses JavaScript and sets the positioning wrong. Genius. Hi David,

Referrer direction would definitely work from an SEO perspective, but I wanted to account for the scenario where Thickbox was either not supported – maybe some moble devices / non JS agent (including bots). It’s a quick fix for Thickbox not being present with the added bonus of making the content a little more SEO friendly and not orphaning the page when real users come to visit.

As an aside, some versions of IE7 have managed to break Thickbox. The bug occurs because there are versions of IE7 reporting themselves as IE6 which confuses JavaScript and sets the positioning wrong. Genius.

]]> By: David Hurst http://www.wiseguysonly.com/2009/02/22/thickbox-accessibility-and-search-engine-optimisation/comment-page-1/#comment-916 David Hurst Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:17:18 +0000 http://www.wiseguysonly.com/?p=205#comment-916 You could also do a referrer detection script that looks for users who have come to the page from anywhere except your domain, and then redirects them to the appropriate point within the main website. You would need to add a search bot detector also to avoid getting redirection issues on your SEO: i.e. you only redirect genuine users, not search engine robots. You could also do a referrer detection script that looks for users who have come to the page from anywhere except your domain, and then redirects them to the appropriate point within the main website.

You would need to add a search bot detector also to avoid getting redirection issues on your SEO: i.e. you only redirect genuine users, not search engine robots.

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