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Mobile Navigation Hides Crawlable Links on WordPress

The mobile hamburger menu or hidden navigation may prevent search engines from discovering important links if they rely on JavaScript interaction to reveal them.

Issue ID: MOBILE-NAV-HIDES-001Severity: moderateEffort: M

Why this matters

The mobile hamburger menu or hidden navigation may prevent search engines from discovering important links if they rely on JavaScript interaction to reveal them. This affects usability on phones, which is where most local-business traffic now happens.

WordPress fix path

How to fix this on WordPress

Use the page editor, theme, or SEO tooling depending on where this issue lives.

  1. 1Inspect the page and theme output.
  2. 2Apply the fix in the most direct place.
  3. 3Publish and validate with a re-audit.

After you fix it

  • Disable JavaScript and confirm all navigation links exist in the HTML source

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