: Hide joyride (intro javascript) for Googlebot I am using a joyride script for new visitors. Example here: http://foundation.zurb.com/sites/docs/v/5.5.3/components/joyride.html After the vistior is done

@Heady270

As far i understand joyride is a piece of html code, which displaying is triggered by a javascript to the news visitors, who doesn't yet have your cookie.

In this case you can easily hide your joyride content from Google without any cloacking.


The first idea i would try, is to get all of your joyride textual content into background images, which surely isn't indexed by Google. Thats the simplest thing.
Another thing i would try is to bind the javascript behavior, which triggers joyride displaying, to any user action, like scrolling. Google doesn't scroll, so it wouldn't be able to trigger joyride.
Yet another thing is worth to try is to put the whole joyride content into a file and show it in an iframe. But the file, containing joyride content, which is iframe src, should be noindex-ed. On this way you display your piece of content without indexing it.

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@Angela700

I would not recommend hiding joyride from Google because google can treat that as Cloaking.

It won't be negative for your SEO if you implement that on your web.

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