hyperlinks in body shielded by divs

how are they indexed?

[TomJones]

OK,this one could be posted in three other forums. But, it really revolves around the positioning of divs.

I have placed text hyperlinks on my pages to help SEs navigate around my site. They are in the body of the page but, since I have a page made up of absolute divs, the links are basically covered up by the div since, they are not in any div. They are followed by the Sim Spider so, I assume they are being crawled properly.

I strive to do the right thing, even when I read about all the things I can get away with. That being said, do you think SEs will penalize this? Someday?

Thanks

[hafnius]

Hi TomJones

I am not sure i understand corectly but here goes... As i understand it SE reads the code top to bottom regardless of positioned divs, z-index and so on, so this will absolutely not get you penalized.

Maybe somebody with more SE experiance could elaborate..

Kind Regards
Hafnius

[piskie]

If I understand your description correctly, the links are actualy invisible as in covered by a div.

If so there will be no automatic penalty applied.

However should a competitor report the page/s, a manual review would most probably penalise hidden content especialy as in this case it is hidden links.

[pageoneresults]

The indexing spiders will see exactly what you see when you view source at the browser level. If SIM Spider sees it, so will the spiders.