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Automatically hiding/collapsing table of contents – Bad for SEO?
Posted by on November 8, 2020 at 10:52 amI am using LuckyWP Table of Contents, since multiple sources have recommended me adding table of contents to my blog posts in order to boost SEO.
However it takes a bunch of space and I was wondering if it automatically was collapsed when the post was loaded will it still provide the SEO juice?
Hope there are some SEO prodigies able to help here.
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4 Replies
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Including table of contents have no impact on the SEO. It just helps in SERPs so a reader can navigate easily. It is a UI element.
Take the example of a book. Would you be interested in reading a 500 pages book which has no Table of Contents. Its that simple! 🙂
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> I was wondering if it automatically was collapsed when the post was loaded will it still provide the SEO juice?
Yes. Go ahead.
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sure, in a mobile first indexing world, Google is considering anything it sees in the HTML. As a personal rule of thumb I usually suggest to keep an handle or something to expand it so that’s not considered hidden content for seo purposes. As someone stated consider it as a low weight as a ranking factor as it just may boost users experience and engagement with the page (few times I saw clients’ TOC links being used in snippets/featured snippets on SERPs, tho)
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Yes, I think the key thing to consider in this instance is whether it affects page engagement. I would closely monitor that to make sure it doesn’t impact organic traffic.
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