Is Roksprocket module good for SEO?

[sju10544]

Hi all,

we're "injecting" some Rockettheme Roksproket modules for example here: <snip> to give the site more text (WDF/IDF analysis).
From an SEO perspective I have the following question:

Can Google "see" the text of these modules to "respect" it in the ranking of the page or does Google "only" detect the text above them, so it makes no sense to use this "technique"?

If Google can't see it, how to do it better?

Thanks for all comments

Jens

[edited by: goodroi at 10:01 pm (utc) on Mar 23, 2020]
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[lammert]

Hi sju10544, thanks for coming to the active side of WebmasterWorld!

Dit you inspect the pages with the URL inspection tool in Google Search Console? That might give you an idea which parts of the pages Google is able to fetch and process, and which parts it isn't.

[sju10544]

Hi lammert+

thank you for your answer. Yes I tried to inspect the pages with the GSC tools. But unfortunately this gives me "only" "URL is on Google, everything is OK".

But I tried to find out, if the "technique" of loading a module in a Joomla article could be a problem, because the text is "unvisible" for the search engine and hurts ranking.

[JayDub]

View the source on a page in question. If you see the content you're asking about a search engine can too. A Joomla module should be compiled on the server side as part of the HTML page sent to a visitor's browser (afaik) which means the text should be visible to everyone.

[sju10544]

Yes JayDub, totally agree that a Joomla module should be compiled by the server and when I'm looking at the website source code I can see the text.
However I'm concerned about the different statements with different SEO bot simulator. For example this the botsimulator cuts the text after the first module.
The totheweb shows everything...

[JayDub]

That's likely to mean it's counted in some way as part of the page by Google ... They don't miss much.

When you look at the source code what is the text "wrapped" in?
Meaning is it in a <div> an <iframe> a <something else>

[sju10544]

Thank you JayDub for answering my questions!

The scource code says <div class="sprocket-mosaic-item" before the actual text comes.

[JayDub]

Sure thing ... It should be seen and counted by gBot if it's in a div. Whether it's counted as positive or negative will depend on the text, of course. My guess is one of the tools your using is just not liking something in the coding, like maybe there's an unclosed <div> or something else the bot is "choking on" that's making it drop that section of text ... It's really difficult to write a bot that can process HTML with errors or non-standard items, so one is probably missing some of the text because something isn't quite matched up in the source and the parser isn't taking that specific "coding irregularity" into account.

[sju10544]

Alright. Thanks for the explanation. This helps a lot because I'm really thinking about to give every page more text, internal links etc. using this "technique". But it would not make any sense if the gBot would not "see" this :-). Have already changed a lot of pages and guessed I have to re-change them again...