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Is h1 tag that's hidden using display:none given prominence by search engines?

Asked 2009-04-15T22:14:54.857
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When content is hidden by CSS (display:none), is that read by Search engines or are sites penalised for that ? In my case, due to some CMS and other reasons, I need to serve alternative content to users and hide the H1 tag on the page using display:none. I wanted to know if the Search Engine will still treat the H1 tag with the same prominence as when its not hidden.

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Its not a discussion about that search engine should consider it or not. Its a question about what search engine will do. Here is your answer http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66353

Search engine will discard it, and also its against their terms of use so they have right to even remove your site from search result.

answered 2013-01-05T20:04:28.027

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