Hi, does anyone know if google indexes links which are located in a div which is set to invisible with INLINE css, like this: <div style="VISIBILITY:hidden;"><a href="link">link</a></div> Code (markup): I read google ignores EXTERNAL CSS but since this is inline I'm not sure. This is part of a javascript menu and I need to be sure the links get indexed.
You could have a sitemap and an alternative (plain links) menu at the bottom of your pages to make sure all links get indexed. As far as your question goes, I'm not sure.
There is a sitemap allready but that's an extra level I would like to avoid. All the links at the bottom would be a little much (that's why they are using javascript dropdowns)
You really want *all* your CSS style elements out of the page and all on an external file - Google won't parse the CSS, so it'll read the link - but it wouldn't at all be difficult for *any* bot to spot "hidden" attributes within page code itself.
Actually the site I'm talking about is using a CMS which has generated a 3 mile long javascript before the content ( total filesize = 45k and about 80% is javascript ). If they read the links it's ok, alltough it's probably only a matter of time before bots start to ignore hidden parts altogether. This is not going to be funny to change all this.
I have an experiment on Flash Simulation and if you look through the page (click on the links) you'll see some hidden keywords. Search on Google for them and you'll see they are the only result. So... * Google has indexed the hidden divs * Google won't take the user to the right point on the page so the user may be confused about why they've ended up there Sarah