Google: Expandable Hover Text Not Considered Cloaking

Google’s Martin Splitt confirmed that having a hover over expandable text for navigational elements is not considered cloaking by Google. Martin said doing this is “Deffo not cloaking.”

Kristine Schachinger asked about this on Twitter “if a client wanted to add some text to their menus for clients on user interaction like hover (which means Googlebot would not see it) is that a cloaking issue?”

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Here is that tweet:

.@JohnMu if a client wanted to add some text to their menus for clients on user interaction like hover (which means Googlebot would not see it) is that a cloaking issue?

It would only add info for users

— Kristine Schachinger (@schachin) June 28, 2021

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Here is the other parts:

Deffo not cloaking.

— Martin Splitt 💉 (@g33konaut) June 28, 2021

Sure, it’s fine.

— Martin Splitt 💉 (@g33konaut) June 28, 2021

So no need to worry about running into a Google Search penalty with this action.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

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