: Using Accordion, Jquery ,will it affect SEO? Possible Duplicate: How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? I am planning to use Accrodion and Jquery in My website. previously

@Karen161

I personally think for some reasons that it cannot be considered as black hat. When a robot parses your website it actually reads your code and records the direct accessible information it needs (No Ajax load methods). Another reason is since Google is also using JQuery i think everyone can use that with no worry about SEO.

BUT, cuz their is a but :)! this doesn't mean you should be tricky and try to fool the robot by adding tons of non necessary contents in order to have a better SEO. I am sure robots are perfectly able to see that. I actually think that this goes for everything no matter which language you use. You should just code as fair as possible avoiding tricky methods and respect basic SEO rules in order to, HOPEFULLY, have a good SEO.

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@Kevin317

There's a lot more involved in being considered "black hat" than just having some–temporarily–hidden divs on your pages. The text will still be accessible to search engines for indexing(assuming you're not using Ajax loading), and there should be no problems.

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