(Entry was posted by Morena Fiore-Kirby on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 08/13/2020).

Will search result be indexed and counts towards SEO ranking?

Will the searchable content of a page which on load displays only the search box be indexed and counts towards SEO ranking?

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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

Lisa Brown: No, likely not. The content isn`t present in the page until someone performs an action with the search box, the crawlers won`t do that.
Morena Fiore-Kirby: Lisa Brown thank you. And having a hidden list on the page wouldn`t work either. OK thanks for confirming ðŸ‘Œ
Zachary Toto: Morena Fiore-Kirby I`d advise against hidden content on pages. SE bots generally don`t like that. I think it`s a bad idea, not only for SEO, but general usability and experience as well as just bad development and design practice.
Morena Fiore-Kirby: Zachary Toto I`m with you, I was spelling out how that`s a bad idea anyway :)