SEO problem: Blog section on home (startpage) not visible to Google

[Nadine]

Nadine

June 17, 2018 at 8:38 am

Hi,

our website is setup that on the startpage (front / home) the most recent blog excerpts are shown. Settings under Mainpage layout is:

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(Notice the enabled “Aktuelle Blog Eintraege” on the right bottom)

and then:

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This section only becomes visible when the user scrolls down. This gives a nice visual effect, but the problem is that it also means that Google does not index this.

I became aware of this problem by using Google Search Console and its ‘Fetch as Google’ feature. Here’s a screenshot on how google sees/indexes our frontpage. Notice that the whole blog section on the startpage is missing:
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This is done by going to *Login to see link and then enter the URL and ‘Fetch and Render’.

I guess you cannot (are not allowed to fetch our website in Google search console), but you can probably reproduce using *Login to see link as URL which also has a blog section.

Question is whether one could make the blog section a) either always to appear and not only on scroll or b) do things differently for useragent Google Bot (always show for it like LazyLoad for lazyloading images in a SEO friendly way does). I could not find an option for this.