Hidden div content, do search engines consider this content or ignore it? [duplicate]

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jQuery and SEO (hidden div's)

What if I added a hidden div tag inside it some content text, does search engines look into this div?

Example:

<div style="display:none">some text</div>

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It will be indexed but can be frowned upon by Google if you are hiding/showing content for SEO reasons. In other words, what Google sees should be what the user sees when clicking the link.

have a look on this discussion at google form:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing/browse_thread/thread/fd91a80997e531b2/e0fe0c574aa44b8d?lnk=gst&q&pli=1

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en

Hope this helps.

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It depends who you ask :)

Google is pretty smart and does take CSS into account in certain ways. As far as I can tell they seem pretty good at distinguishing between genuinely useful (to the user) content that is hidden and complete spam content hidden.

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Best way to get an idea of what the search engine sees is the use lynx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)