Title: SEO and code generating text.
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# SEO and code generating text.

 *  [jennifer55](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennifer55/)
 * (@jennifer55)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-and-code-generating-text/)
 * I have the plugin Tablepress (which is brilliant) – you just simply add a small
   code to a post or page for a table, and the browser will produce the data assigned
   to the code.
 * The table is created in the admin area. Every time you edit the table, the contents
   of the table is changed on the page where the code has been inserted.
 * This is brilliant for adding fresh information on the fly, such as sales campaigns
   and the like.
 * My question is, although the code is only about 13 characters, would a search
   engine only ‘read’ the code, or would it read the data that has been added in
   the admin side?
 * I have read somewhere that search engines love generated feeds, which is basically
   what tablepress is.
 * Hope I’ve explained this okay.
 * Would appreciate your thoughts as obviously, I don’t know a lot about how search
   engines capture the data.

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 *  [davemhui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davemhui/)
 * (@davemhui)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-and-code-generating-text/#post-3424316)
 * Open your site in a web browser Lynx. Whatever it shows is visible and indexed
   by search engines.
 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-and-code-generating-text/#post-3424328)
 * Hi Jennifer,
 * thanks for your question.
 * Search engines will see the resulting table, and not the Shortcode. So, they 
   will index the content in the table just fine 🙂
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [jennifer55](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennifer55/)
 * (@jennifer55)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-and-code-generating-text/#post-3424399)
 * Thanks very much for your replies.
 * Love your plugin Tobias, thanks for your response. I now think Tablepress is 
   even better!
 * Regards,
 * Jennifer
 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-and-code-generating-text/#post-3424422)
 * Hi Jennifer,
 * No problem, you are very welcome! Thanks for the kind words! That’s really nice!
   Great to hear that you like the plugin so much!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 *  [mlanestudio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlanestudio/)
 * (@mlanestudio)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-and-code-generating-text/#post-3424472)
 * Hi! SEO by Yoast is not recognizing the content of my tables. I keeps saying 
   I have no pictures and not copy in the copy area, it is all on the table. Is 
   there something I can enter to make the SEO see that my information is in the
   table?
 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-and-code-generating-text/#post-3424473)
 * Hi,
 * unfortunately, no. As described in the other thread at [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-recognizing-content-stored-on-tables](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-recognizing-content-stored-on-tables)
   this is just a consequence of how Shortcodes work.
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias

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 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-and-code-generating-text/#post-3424473)
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