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Using CSS to hide SEO content
« on: May 10, 2022, 11:54:16 am »
A buddy of mine who seems to know what he's doing suggested an SEO tactic for my site. I was having the problem of Google and other SEs not crawling all the way through my site. I have forums and they don't have a feature that lists all of the topics in a sitemap type form that makes it easy for SEs to find.

He suggested that on the home page of my site I put a link to all of my forum topics in a div. Then he told me to create a css class and set display to none and then assign the class to that div. The code obviously works and it gives a kind of sitemap on the home page without it displaying to visitors.

He said that SEs such as google don't consider external style sheets and that it would view the page as if the div were not hidden. I wonder about the accuracy of this statement and I'm worried I could get banned out of a search engine for using tactics like this.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Can anyone tell me with any certainty if I need to worry about a ban?

 

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