Is hidden content (display: none;) indexed by search engines?

[roggy]

I wanted to ask this question, since there are so many legitimate uses for hiding content with display: none; when creating interactive content, if a site used this way it will be automatically penalised by Google or other search engines or down rankings because it is a SEO black hat technique or not? and content wrapped by display: none will be indexed by search engines? Does any one have experience about this problem?

 

[Intuz]

If the page indexed by search engines, it will be on results. A sure fire way to test this is to do a site search using the URL that you have ‘display:none’, if it result your website, it is indexed by Google.

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

That is not quite accurate.

OP, for questions like this, all you have to do is look at real life examples. Find a site that is coded the way you want to code your page. Look at the Google cache of that page, and specifically the text version. If you see the content there, then you know Google is reading it. If you don't see it, then Google is not reading it.

 

[Intuz]

Intuz

Thanks for this suggestion.

Yes, this is also a way to find the status about google crawling.
To check your website cache copy you can type in URL bar cache:yourdomain.com