Spider trap

Marketing
1

IS this code a spider trap? I call a simple js (not included here) which allows each of the 4 images to show 4 divs when clicked on.
I have put no follow on the links. Thanks

<div style="padding:0;margin:0;">
  <div class="simpleTabs" style="background: url('backform1.jpg') no-repeat;padding-top:19%;">
        <ul class="simpleTabsNavigation">
            <li><a href="#" rel="nofollow"><img src="img1.jpg" alt="" width="99" height="125" 
 
/></a></li>
 <li><a href="#" rel="nofollow"><img src="img2.jpg" alt="" width="99" height="125" /></a></li>
  <li><a href="#" rel="nofollow"><img src="img3.jpg" alt="" width="99" height="125" /></a></li>
   <li><a href="#" rel="nofollow"><img src="img4.jpg" alt="" width="99" height="125" /></a></li>
        </ul>
   
<div class="simpleTabsContent">Shown when "Tab 1"  clicked.</div>
<div class="simpleTabsContent">Shown when "Tab 2" clicked.</div>
<div class="simpleTabsContent">Shown when "Tab 3" clicked.</div>
<div class="simpleTabsContent">"Shown when Tab 4" clicked.</div>
    </div>
2

What’s a spider trap? Is it something a spider can’t get out of?

I wouldn’t worry about that code, the spider will just read it top to bottom, I believe.

You know, you don’t need to put nofollow on your ‘#’ links unless they’re actually leading somewhere.

3

There is nothing here that would give any spider a problem.

4

Thanks for the replies. The reason I am no following the links is because I don’t want the link text to be followed by the spiders as they don’t point anywhere but the home page.

5

Having this text in the divs doesn’t appear as hidden to the search engines?

6

No, the search engines do not render your page with a browser, do not execute your JavaScript or CSS, they only read your HTML source. From your HTML, you have 4 divs of content on a page. The contents of all 4 are considered part of the page.

7

I just tried the page in Lynx text browser, and the divs are showing fine.

8

Just remember that they will try and follow links (including relative ones) they find in on-page JavaScript (for discovery - no link equity attribution is passed)…