can search engines read HTML text when in a layer?
cherry
2:34 pm on May 22, 2003 (gmt 0)
I have created a web page and have a layer of text in a certain size box so the user has to scroll to read the text but I have to find out if there is an issue that the text might not be read by search engines?
To clarify the text is normal HTML text using a style sheet.
Does anyone know if this is true or can they point me in the right direction of how to find out?
Thank you :-)
BlobFisk
2:38 pm on May 22, 2003 (gmt 0)
You should be fine when it comes to search engines. They just read the code of the page and don't 'see' how the page looks.
cherry
2:57 pm on May 22, 2003 (gmt 0)
Thanks BlobFisk
I was sure that search engines just read a code of page from top to bottom but I wasn't sure if the code for the layer might make the search engine miss the text.