(Entry was posted by Gambit Hardy Jr on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 11/21/2013).

Will the link still be crawled and followed by google?

hi... sorry for this exclusively dumb seo question. if i got this code, %3Cdiv%20style%3D%22visibility%3Ahidden%3B%22%3E%3Ca%20href%3D%22cyberarmy_website%22%20rel%3D%22dofollow%22%3Ecyberarmy%3C%2Fa%3E%3C%2Fdiv%3E , will the link still be crawled and followed by google?

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Gambit Hardy Jr: hi... sorry for this exclusively dumb seo question. if i got this code, <div style="visibility:hidden;"><a href="cyberarmy_website" rel="dofollow">cyberarmy</a></div>, will the link still be crawled and followed by google?
Jim Munro: Yes to both, providing the url is valid.

BTW ;"rel="dofollow"" is superfluous, you do not need it, ;dofollow is the default, and there is no such tag as "dofollow" anyway.

...but you should read this too. :)

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353?hl=en