Hide description with ''Display: None " bad for SEO?

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I have some links on the site and I will add a description to each of them, and hide the description, but I doubt if hide with display: none is bad for SEO.

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<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/descritivo.BR" <?=$nofollow?> target="_blank"><i class="sociais-sprits ico_top_face"></i> <p class="txtDescritivo"> Facebook </p></a></li>

Another question is about this description within the anchor and the LI, through the paragraph if it is a good practice for SEO.

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It will depend a lot on what you’re hiding!

Use the display:none; to improve the interface and user experience will not generate SEO penalties.

However, if you do something to circumvent the search systems, sooner or later you may be punished with placement fines in the search services.

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Not in general. At least Google is able to "see" this content. It does not penalize the ranking because it is marked this way. So you can do what you need without major worries.

Of course, I cannot guarantee that this will happen in any situation. There may be some more complex pattern where this mechanism is used that there may be some problem. But it must be rare, because mechanism alone will not cause any problems.

The example of the question does not clearly indicate how it is done, but it does not seem that there will be problems.

I don’t see a problem with anything else except <i class="sociais-sprits ico_top_face"></i> is not being used for anything.

Obviously, Google can interpret this as an attempt to hide text to make it easier to search and punish. But this does not usually occur according to what I read on Google’s own forums. There is an incentive to do this. In general it will not be considered an attempt to circumvent the search engine.

It’s more complicated to say about other mechanisms, but I doubt it differs much from this.

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The use of display:none will not affect your SEO. In the case of visibility:hidden, may not be indexed.

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