Thanks for the reply-
I should have been a little clearer on this- I did lose rankings but mostly had to do with the switch to the new site not having redirects done correctly. the company that did the redesign dropped the www from the name and a huge list of things. I contacted and SEO company (im a newbie) and they were able to fix most of the errors in that respect.
They had mentioned to me that I had too much hidden text (under read more buttons) And that I should move this text to be visible, i did this for most of the pages but the site was not designed like this so now I to have the whole site redesigned to be able to have that area visible. I understand that I need visible relevant text- I just need to find that middle ground where I have enough text yet the site still looks clean.
You did answer the question- just wanted to make sure I understand you correctly... that in having text in a read more area that as long as Google is recognizing it (it is) that is should not effect the site in getting our lost rankings back??