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Dropdown CSS styled menus and SEO question

by ArielT
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Hello, my doubt is: do dropdown CSS styled menus have any disadvantage from a SEO perspective?
#css #dropdown #menus #question #seo #styled
  • Profile picture of the author trevord92
    Quite a few Wordpress themes use drop down CSS styled menus.

    One I've just looked at has all the links shown in the HTML so they'll be picked up by the search engine robots as normal links. So if that was why you had doubts, you should be OK.

    Of course, there are arguments both ways as to whether or not that kind of menu is user friendly, including whether or not it meets any disabled access legislation requirements but that's another issue entirely.
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    • Profile picture of the author sunlounger10004
      Ariel,

      This will have no effect on your SEO, in fact it will help because Google actually likes CSS websites ever since the last update. Just make sure your menus are relevant to the keywords you are tar-getting and you will be good!
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by sunlounger10004 View Post

        Ariel,

        This will have no effect on your SEO, in fact it will help because Google actually likes CSS websites ever since the last update.
        There was no update about CSS websites. Google has never had a problem with HTML/CSS. I don't know what update you are talking about.

        Dropdown menus coded in HTML/CSS are fine. All you have to do to prove it to yourself is find one and take a look at the text version of the site in the Google cache. You will see all the items in the dropdown listed.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Like Mike said all you have to do is look at the Google cache (text version).

    If there's no cache, use this firefox plugin to simulate a cache by turning off javascript, CSS, images.

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    Originally Posted by yukon View Post

    You can get a web developer plugin for firefox (free) that will simulate a Google Cache (text version).

    Download the browser plugin.
    • Disable all javascript
    • Disable all images
    • Disable all styles
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  • Profile picture of the author whiteoutreviews
    This is a really good question. I recently transferred all of my links to a CSS style drop down menu. I haven't found any information claiming to hurt your SEo, pagerank, and crawler stats. My fear is for the mobile community accessing the drop down menus.
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