: Do links hidden by display:none still pass PageRank I read through the comments and answers to both How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? and Is hidden content (display: none;) -indexed-

@Alves908

More than likely these links will get crawled and be treated like other links on your site (assuming that you don't nofollow them). However, be sure you are are clear on Google's guidelines around hidden text (see support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353). One thing I've learned the hard way related to this is that you you want to make sure Google can access your CSS and JavaScript files (don't block those files via your robots.txt).

Now, all that said, I wouldn't count on Google finding all the pages on your site just because they are in the menu (this is true whether the menu has display:none or not). Make sure the pages are available via links elsewhere on the site, including in the XML sitemap. That way if Google for some reason does not see the display:none links (or, if Google chooses to ignore those links), those pages will still get crawled and indexed (assuming all else being okay with your site of course).

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@Kristi941

Yes, they pass PageRank. Content hidden with display:none is not special in any way unless it is used to manipulate the search rankings (which is something else altogether). Those links will be crawled and evaluated the same as links that are visible when the page loads.

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@Kevin317

why would you want to do that?
They may crawl most everything you throw at them, just out of "curiosity", but will probably not index, raise an eyebrow at most.

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