<DIV> Statement?

I'm new here, but I've tried searching and haven't found anything on this topic.

I have a small site where the front page contains less content than the linked pages (FAQ's, etc). Nothing unusual here.

Could I throw the rest of my content into this first page at the bottom, and maybe hide it (or gives users an on/off toggle button with the default set to visible if necessary)? Technically what is in DIV is not JS, so iot ought to be indexed, right?

All my inbound links go to the home page, so isn't this the best way to represent my site to the crawler? Or does the crawler go to my other pages and add them up (yes, I have plain hyperlinks to all pages at the bottom)?

Thanks!
-Charlie

You can also try detecting when your site is being crawled. Then generating additional HTML containing your keywords in a readable manner.

In C# this may done by:

if (Request.Browser.Crawler)
{
//Spit out HTML for crawler...
}

Your idea about the DIV is good, but you can also hide the DIV and some search engines such as MSN will use it

<div style="display:none">
Generate Crawler HTML
</div>
This works real well for me for MSN, yahoo etc. But with google, the only real way is links, the more the better.

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Good luck to all!!!

That's a neat idea...detect the requester and create special HTML for it. I'm kind of surprised it works--and yet, how could they possibly detect it when a client page is dynamically generated anyway by the server.

both practices that you two are discussing will get your site banned from google.

Thanks. I'll stay clean HTML.

As Gordon says, the crawler cannot detect that the page is detecting it. It's all server side and the crawler sees the end result, the HTML.
As for the invisible DIV, well that is a common technique to hide information until it's required. For example online application forms with different pages/sections.
As long as the HTML that is generated is fully readable normal text, that is not out of context and without repeated words one after another, it's OK.
I use the SubmitIt service to scan my pages to check for number of words and possible spamming problems, it shows my site as A OK.
So far, I'm happy.... :-)

use multiple pages, don't bet everything on one page (your homepage).