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A prominent SEO consultant recently told me that using display:none in the css is still a bad idea.  We built a simple drop down menu using widely used jquery techniques and it uses display:none to slideToggle the menu.

Does anyone else think this is a bad idea?  If so, how should I change it since just about every jquery drop down I come across uses the slideToggle/display:none.

I am developing a drop down menu and am trying to decide if using javascript instead of just css is worth it.

I've done some research on the topic and the opinions seem dated.  I know that at one time not using javascript for a drop down menu was important but now less so.  Google constantly says that they will not discount the links just because they are not shown until javascript is ran.

What I want to know is has anyone discovered from testing that using javascript instead of css for a drop down makes a difference?

Note: the links will not be located in an external javascript file.

We built a landing page with a wufoo form.  Inside the wufoo form is a link going to another page on our website.  We are wondering if clicking on that link will result in a bounce since it is in an iframe.

We are using google analytics.

We have a large content article section on our e-commerce site that receives a lot of visits but also have very high bounce rates.  We are wondering if this is hurting the rest of our site's rankings.

**When I say bounce rates I mean what ever metrics Google is using to determine quality content (specifically after the Panda update). **

We are trying to determine if having the content articles on our domain hurts us.  We only have the content articles for link building.