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: Are temporarily hidden elements bad for search-engine rankings? I've been reading a lot of information saying that hidden elements are bad and that search engines penalize pages for using them.

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I've been reading a lot of information saying that hidden elements are bad and that search engines penalize pages for using them. I started to get really worried about it when I realized that MOST of my pages use them.

This is the basis as far as I know of all CSS based cascading menus. The submenu have 'display:none' until the parent is hovered.

The same is true of places where there are multiple tabs in a page (like browser tabs but within a page) to show multiple contents on the same page.

So, is it true that the page ranking would be penalized?

If so, is there a way to mark this somehow to not get penalized?

I'd like to keep these features without resorting to less efficient methods such as Javascript or worse.

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@Kristi941

You'll be fine. Hidden text is only a problem when it is done for the purposes of manipulating the search engines. It's not what you do but why you do it that causes most penalties and this is a perfect example of that. Hidden text in this example allows for the menu to be more user friendly. Countless websites do this without penalty. You'll be fine.

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