Hi, Not sure this is the correct forum for this - but here goes anyway. I'm in the process of putting a new site together - http://search-engine-optimization.online-site.net. I've used css to make an expanding menu. What I'm not sure is: would G see this as hiding links. I'm not sure if they would or not. What do people think ?? The menu is made by having hidden div's and the javascript makes the div visible. I may need to change the way that it is done to get better browser support, but I thought I'd ask the question anyway. Note: pay little or no attention to the content of the site, it's by no means finished yet.
I guess most of the users are not so good, at seeing hidden links like the one you have Probably you need to make your text following "+" under your hyper link. Just an adivice!
In this case rolling over the menu presents the additional links, so this is not 'hidden content'. I use a similar naviagtion system on some if my sites and google has crawled them and indexed them without incident. 'Hidden Text' is purposely hiding keyword relevant text fo thte purpose of higher rankings, not turning a div on and off to present site navigation.
Menu has now been changed to use z-index to move the submenus forward and back, with height settings to make them hide correctly in IE. At least if G does check for things 'hidden' with css they shouldn't now throw a wobbly - although the height hack is almost as bad imho (just more difficult to check for). I think most users have got used to seeing links in menus without underscores - I'll see how that goes.
iShopHQ - it was still hidden content (links). When the page first loads, the submenus are in hidden divs. SE's will see the links in those divs, but users won't until they expand the menu. G could get upset at that - they would have no way of knowing that there was javascript which made the div visible. Unless they've started parsing javascript.