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question about links

by marks2424
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I have had some trouble with the people on the google help forum who keep telling me that my site has hidden links and my site will never go far because google doesn't like hidden links. I asked the people who wrote the web editing program about it and they said because the links aren't really hidden they are just hidden from view until anyone puts there cursor over a nav bar tab because the hidden links are pages that show up on the drop down menus and aren't hidden like hidden text is so I am not trying to hide anything from the SE's. I think what my web editing people are saying makes sense but who knows. All this started because when I was adding new pages to my site the site would go from page 12 in search results to like page 75 and would be there for about a week and go right back where it was which it has been there for at least 6 months. Would anyone mind looking at the coding at the bottom of my home page and see what you think about the coding. For me I don't understand why the coding isn't up with the rest of the coding for the nav bar but i am not a coder. The same code shows up at the bottom of every page on the site. My site is www. my italian travels dot com. Thanks for any info you can give me. Mark
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  • Profile picture of the author Ken Somerville
    I'm not a coder, but I will ask a question. Do you have a site map, for the spiders to read. If you don't know what that is, the basics are a map of all your links that shows the spider where they go and how to follow them.

    With out the site map the spiders may have a problem following all your links and that may be the big problem that you are having.

    If you are on a Wordpress Format then grab the Google sitemap Plug-in. It will create a site map for you.

    I hope this helps.
    Ken
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  • Profile picture of the author frenchsquared
    Give me a link to the site. Sounds like you got hacked. I will be able to tell pretty fast.
    sorry missed the link... looking now

    That is not a good way to make navigation.
    You can do that with css and not upset Google.
    Google is correct you are hidding links. I know it is not
    intentional but Google does not care, you are doing it.

    Your coder needs to learn jQuery. No reason to hide links that way.

    That is not a very large site. Rebuild it in wordpress. Get some basic seo, you have none.
    You will see a drastic improvement in placement. If that is to much work, then rebuild
    the navigation. Use css and jquery. Google does not care about display:none.
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  • Profile picture of the author marks2424
    Thanks Frenchsquared i will tell the software people about it again. They said no one else is having any problems like me and say they are coding like this because of something about java but not sure. Also I don't know what is wrong with my SEO I did everything according to the SEO information I got from one of the big SEO sites and had a few people check it. I read a lot about SEO and had most of the info on the screen while putting the site together. So I guess if the SEO info I got on line wasn't any good then how do I find good SEO information. Thanks Mark
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  • Profile picture of the author kokopelli
    Yes, it's all those
    Code:
    style="visibility:hidden;"
    instances that are raising red flags. I know, there is no malicious intend, it's just the way the navigation was coded, but (like frenchsquared mentioned) there are better ways to do this.

    You should really consider re-doing the site in WordPress, it will also make it easier for you to update the site, etc. In addition, since the content and design will be separate, it would be easy to change the latter at any time, without impacting the former.
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  • Profile picture of the author marks2424
    I really don't plan on using wordpress the software I am using is similar to dreamweaver and I didn't have this problem until they came out with a new version and I really like the program and will keep on them to change the coding. thanks for the additional information.
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