1. The easiest way to do this is to make a small change to the view template to set the current tab from the url #. I have added a detailed note on the Magic Tabs forum at
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/magic-tabs/forums/how-t...

2. Not directly. Magic tabs loads all the content, then splits it up once loaded using jQuery. There are ways to hide content within a page from search engines.

- You could make the content of each tab after the first an iframe block.

- (this requires some scripting) you could make the page the result of a form submission, so that the search engine only saw the unsubmitted form with just the first tab, then some script in the page did a form submit before any heavy loading completed to show the full page.

- Use blocks that do ajax loading in the tabs after the first, but you would have to use something like Tony's Rapid Ajax Paginghttp://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/rapid-ajax-paging/... to load the tabbed content from other pages.

You can experiment with one of the free iframe blocks wrapped in a block style of display:none. You then use the developer console to remove the display:none style from the iframe block. If you can make that reveal your content, then it should also work with Magic tabs.

I have just submitted a generic 'Blocks by AJAX' addon to the PRB that can be used within sets of Magic Tabs or with other blocks to delay the loading of block content.

http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/blocks-by-ajax/...

(Link will only work for those with PRB access until the block is approved).

Blocks by AJAX is now approved.

http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/blocks-by-ajax/...