How Does Google View Hidden Content?

[jasongmcmahon]

I have a website which contains a lot of content behind a show hide, does Google crawl the "hidden" copy?

[EGOL]

There are many ways to hide things and Google's response to them can be different.    If you want to learn if Google is viewing and indexing, then place some unique text in the hidden area and search to see if it is findable.

Also, if content is hidden, google might decrease its value in search.  We had visible content that was placed behind a hidden... Google still indexed it but it was almost worthless for pulling in longtail traffic.  We brought it back out into the open and it (after many months) returned to its former SEO value.