Can the data in the table be crawled by search engines?
Our WooCommerce Product Table, Posts Table Pro and Document Library Pro plugins display data from your WordPress site in a table. This article explains how search engine bots can crawl and index the content of your tables.
How crawling works
The table or library requests its rows from the server after the page has loaded. This means the rows are not present in the HTML that the server first sends.
A crawler that does not run JavaScript sees the surrounding page, but not the rows. Google has confirmed that it can render pages with JavaScript, so it can still index the content, but many other crawlers and AI assistants do not.
The reliable route to indexing is the single page that each document, post, or product has of its own. That page is fully rendered in the server HTML, including the title, description, and download link.
For best results, enable those single pages and make sure they are included in your sitemap. Treat the table itself as a navigation aid rather than the indexable copy.