Comments on: SEO Advice: Use text

By: B Michaels

B Michaels — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:14:27 +0000

Someone may have already said this, but if a site has text that has to be displayed on every page (like a site-wide disclaimer), it can be very useful to put this is an image on each page so it doesn’t get indexed.

By: Mind Power

Mind Power — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:57:17 +0000

I’D LOVE IT when google et al finally reads javascript. While PHP is so versatile, I must admit still getting the jitters deploying PHP code coz it’s often linked to my SQL databases. Oh those vulnerable SQL databases… how often you’ve been hacked!

By: Throw Pillows

Throw Pillows — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:10:57 +0000

The problem is I saw some sites use hidden text behind the image, but of course you can only see the hidden text when looking at the text only cache.

By: Sterling Silver Jewelry

Sterling Silver Jewelry — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:48:17 +0000

Agreed with Paul above! As long as the text spiderable and not spamming, using image text should be fine.

By: Scented Candles

Scented Candles — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:47:06 +0000

Thanks for the useful advise, Matt!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:56:09 +0000

I am a web designer and my client requires a particular font be used in page headers – are all Image Replacement techniques frowned upon?

Surely, as long as the text is spiderable and accessible to screen-readers, it shouldn’t be an issue if there is a nice looking image version displayed to the site visitor?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:13:29 +0000

In terms of SEO, the overall influence of using ALT tags is low. As they have been previously abused like meta tags by some webmasters who fill alt tags with trail of keywords, the major search engines have lowered the importance of ALT tags in their algorithms.

By: Shea Ellison

Shea Ellison — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:55:04 +0000

SEO SPAM thrives. My site got penalized last month for approximately 13 hidden words, yet a competitor I have reported numerous times over the last few months to Google’s ‘Report a Spam Result’ remains in the index with at least a thousand hidden keywords on their home page. Does nobody ever read or act on those spam reports?

Do a search for ’strategic internet consulting’ number two in the index is McMillan/Doolittle LLP – http://mcmillandoolittle.com/ click their link and the hit ‘Ctrl-A’ and suddenly see the thousand or hidden key words in white text on a whit background.

By: Steve Oberman

Steve Oberman — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:52:08 +0000

A picture is worth a thousand words – NOT.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:42:05 +0000

My site (utterpants.co.uk) has been delisted from google since the end of January. We’ve lost the
majority of our traffic. We’ve been in contact with the google team via the
help@google.com email address, but they’ve only said that they cannot manually
reinclude our site:

“Please keep in mind that we’re unable to manually add your pages to our
search results.”

Our “case” number is: #45476517

A strange thing happened this morning. A fellow satire editor emailed me and
congratulated me on my reinclusion to google. I checked, and sure as fish have
tails, there we were, listed right on top – Utterpants – refreshingly
different. But upon searching again, I noticed that we disappeared every few
clicks, and finally we went away completely (again). It seems that we were
briefly reincluded. I saw it with my own two eyes. But now we are gone again.

I can’t understand it, and now I’m worried that Google is trying to reindex us
but cannot for some reason… perhaps our robots file is not up to snuff? We
don’t spam or hijack pages. We’re only a small community of writers running a
satire site for laughs.

Any help you – or anyone – can give me will be muchly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.
Sincerely,