: Can search engines see HTML elements hidden by CSS? Possible Duplicate: How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? I was wondering if search engines can read <a> elements

@Cooney921

Yes.

From www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200510/google_seo_and_using_css_to_hide_text/

Those are all legitimate reasons to hide text, but many developers have still been worried that Google and other search engines may start to algorithmically flag any sites that use CSS to hide text as possible spammers.

Up until now, that has not been the case (at least not officially), but in the post SEO Mistakes: Unwise comments, Matt Cutts, who works at Google, states that I don’t recommend that people use CSS to hide text. That statement of course generated a whole lot of comments and questions from worried developers and webmasters.

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