[Dave]

Hi there, thanks Cryout for the very nice Parabola WP Theme!
In other themes, I am able to add pages to the site (for seo value) and keep them from appearing visually in the automatic Menus by making the menu text match the background, and excluding the pages from navigation bar and making them a child of the one menu item that matches the background color. Sure, users may scroll over there and accidentally see the menu and pages, but no big deal. It’s important the search engines see them but that they not clutter up the screen.
How can we do this in Parabola free version? I tried the technique and I get a blank menu box. If I try to move them over to the right edge, I get a series of empty black menu boxes to the right of the filled, desired menu boxes, which doesn’t look so good and could confuse visitors.
Thanks!

[Walt]

Have you tried making a custom menu and omitting the pages that you don’t want to show in the navigation?

Also, FYI, having a hidden page with content and nothing linked to that page holds no SEO value because it’s not being linked.

[Dave]

Hi Walt; thanks for the reply and ideas. I haven’t learned Custom Menus yet so will explore that to see if it’s what I need. Links are for sure part of the SEO picture, and the pages I want to create will contain links. The pages shouldn’t be hidden from Google of course, and some plug-ins will do this, if you hide the page no one sees it. I want to have additional landing pages for web search engines to find and index, but not such that they clutter a menu.
For now, I’ve added additional blank menus like ‘for later’ ‘coming soon’ etc and the one at the end has the pages for search engines. Some users will see them for sure, as they drift the cursor over that way, but I’m hoping the place holder text will keep them from straying that way…
Dave

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