Legitimate use of "onmouseover"

Is google to penalise this as well?

[ericjunior]

I have just finished nervously reading the recent thread about google penalising "onmouseover" links to affiliate sites.

Can someone please clarify if google now frowns upon any onmouseover usage? We use "onmouseover" in js drop down menus that link to pages purely in our site. Is this to be penalised now? If "onmouseover" is penalised, what about "onmouseclick"?

[Chris_R]

I didn't read the other thread, but google uses on mouseover - so I fail to see how they could pick on other people for doing it.

They have an option for it in adwords - they pretty much "tell" you to do it.

[aroach]

I sure hope not. I have already totally redone my navigation bar twice for Google. The more I optimize for Google the uglier my site gets.

I would think if they were going to penalize this most of the sites on the web would be affected so we might all come out the same in the SERP's anyway.

[robertito62]

"...I have already totally redone my navigation bar twice for Google..."

These threads are funny. Every time a new one comes up I go back and redo all my pages too (several hundreds), instead of developing fresh content. If you guys don't stop, my pages will only be nothing but font tags...I already got rid of css, js, mouseovers, layers...

[benihana]

my pages will only be nothing but font tags...I already got rid of css

surely this is the wrong way round?

we should be using css and getting rid of font tags

[Birdman]

I second that benihana! There is NO WAY you will be penalised for using CSS or JS.

Edit: Unless your site went under a hand edit and your CSS file was doing tricky things to hide text.

[robertito62]

I was just joking, sorry.

Even if one eliminates the status bar text and the underline feature of a link (js and css), the little hand will always point to a link, no? Not hidden then.

[aroach]

These threads are funny. Every time a new one comes up I go back and redo all my pages too (several hundreds), instead of developing fresh content. If you guys don't stop, my pages will only be nothing but font tags...I already got rid of css, js, mouseovers, layers...

My biggest dilemma is how to get rid of all the external links in my directory without rendering it useless to visitors...