Alternative CSS tags to "display:none;" for SEO

bash_bob

I have always made my pages "by hand". just coding them, a bit of javascript here and there. And because I like to experiment with designs, i use a lot of popup divs, which means i use "display:none" tags for those divs. I've been told that this could be hurting my searchability. The pages have been online for a long time. does anyone have some advice on this? Someone has been mentioned that I will have difficulty with SEO and that I need to use...

Originally asked by kylie2675647 on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Google stated that content hidden for UX should have full weight. In other words, using display:none will no longer have a negative impact. In my opinion, as long as the hidden content does not contain a list of obvious spam keywords there is no issue. I would still try and have content completely visible whenever possible. Fun fact: Google's own search engine page uses display:none .

Full answer by Kaneda: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/131991 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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