Body text - half of it is hidden until the user ask for more- Consider spamming?

[Julien]

Hi everyone, my inside pages are starting to be crowded. Plus I want to keep my good and relevant - but heavy - body text in the middle. I was wondering if I could use a little advance javascript (script.aculo.us) to hide half of my body text with a link that would say "read more".

Would this hidden text be indexed?

Would it be consider as a spamming technique?

Waiting for your reply,

Julien

[ewc21]

Personally, it sounds it's not spamming to me. But I can't tell until I see the page myself. Do you keep a lot of topics stacked in your homepage? Why not organize them into leads and get an extra click for the whole story?

[SuperZu]

Wouldn't it be easier for you to just take the "read more" bit to another page? This way, the problem doesn't exist.

[jsmm]

Wouldn't it be easier for you to just take the "read more" bit to another page? This way, the problem doesn't exist.
That's the first solution I thought of, too.

Most news sites break articles up on multiple pages, with a "next page" link or somesuch at the baes of the first page. Expecially long articles are 3 pages or more.

The benefit of splitting onto multiple pages is that, if you have any ads or dynamic information, they'll load again for the second page - two pages, twice the advertising, but still all the good content. And many users are used to articles broken up onto multiple pages, so they're familiar with clicking on a "next page" link to see more content.