Comments on: SEO Advice: check your own site

By: thePav

thePav — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:11 +0000

holy crap Matt. You should be selling ads on this page for florida investment property. you’re on the first page for that search term. I guess spamming a page with a billion search terms still works!

By: Fery

Fery — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:19:48 +0000

hidden text means disaster for us. So on the effect of paid link. Both of them can affect our PR. But this case, unindexed from google is the worst thing i’ve ever known

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:29:24 +0000

Hidden texts work well for Flash sites. I don’t think it’s spam if the text matches the flash content. Is there a chance of exclusion of such sites? If so, is there any other ‘legal’ solution?

By: Tyler M

Tyler M — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:38:34 +0000

Hey guys, I came here looking for an answer to the display:none thing but see that there doesn’t seem to have been one yet.

A solution I’d like to try is to use a body onload or document.ready script to find all ‘hiddenDiv’ classed boxes and set them to display:none. This way any non-javascript browser can see the info, but toggle hide/show it from those with javascript.

I’m using this on a page where the content is massively long and the entirety of it is uninteresting to most visitors; thus toggling divs like this seems like a good solution.

Any thoughts on this Matt?

By: Dog Clothing

Dog Clothing — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:07:31 +0000

Ooopss….busted.

Great find Matt. Keep up the good work!

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:36:05 +0000

Hi,
I have a question regarding this blog and what could be misinterpreted as endorsement .
A friend recommended some free software that helps with directory submissions, which is something I haven’t done with my sites, (that’s probably why they rank so poorly). I have to trust the company before I install their software, so I search for information using Google and I find 10 results with the name of the software and the famous Matt Cutts in, this is because the owner makes comments on this blog and frequent references to Matt Cutts in forum posts etc.
It seems genuine enough but I feel these comments in various places were designed for the purpose of adding authenticity to his product. Obviously I don’t want to perpetuate this by mentioning the product on your blog suffice to say it has “Matrix” overtones. I just wanted to make that comment.

By: Scorpiono

Scorpiono — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:28:00 +0000

You know what amazes me? They were so indignated by google, and yet they were adopting a very aggresive way to show how “innocent they are” involving all other reasons (google china)…

Shame!

By: Trond

Trond — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:52:42 +0000

I was incredible stupid and let my neighbour do SEO for me. He used hidden text by CSS a lot and now my site is kicked out from Google. I learned the hard way.

So be warned, if you don`t know what they are doing, double check all the help you get from others.

By: Bobby B

Bobby B — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:28:41 +0000

Hi,

can anyone tell me what in the world happens if somone was to PURPOSELY SPAM your site.

For example, most web promoters know that sumbitting your site to search engines multiple times in a short span angers them and may be considered spamming.

What if I used a Automatic search engine sumbitter to KEEEP SUBMITTING MY competitions website? What if I go around and spam my competitors site to mass message boards and allow Googlebot to determine they are spamming. Booom….next thing you know my competitor is flagged and rank is lower then mine.

Believe me when I say this though, I would never want to sink that low to a competitor and honestly asking this question so I can know how to protect my site from such a competitor.

If anyone has a clue, please respond!!!!!!!!!

By: Stephanie Rosendahl

Stephanie Rosendahl — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:38:09 +0000

I don’t see an answer regarding the question about display:none.

We purchased the ‘infinite menu’ from a popular software company. Their menu uses display:none. It is a drop down menu and when you look at our cached pages, the text displays correctly. However, I would like to be sure — is the use of display:none Ok? Does Google penalize for display:none?

I assume it is ok if the text actually displays and nothing is hidden.