Comments on: SEO Mistakes: Nearly hidden text

By: J. Trevino

J. Trevino — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:22:19 +0000

I guess, but why would anyone use EEEEEE?

By: Hari

Hari — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:58:41 +0000

Just a new way to spam As the technology and algorithm improves, so does the act of spamming.

By: karen mathews

karen mathews — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:43:21 +0000

I want to ask if white text and black background color theme would have any effect on SEO? many people use black text and black background.. so does it really matter?

By: Ralph Smith

Ralph Smith — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:02:05 +0000

Im curious does google actually ignore text that is the same color as the back ground?

By: esmudo

esmudo — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:41:19 +0000

Hi,
i need urgently to clarify the next with my programmer:

He´s using in my site´s CSS (display: none, visibility: hidden) for keywords which its font-size are less than one pixel. I want to remove this but he insists that if it is less than a pixel there´s no problem …

What can I do to make me understand? How can i prove he´s wrong?
Could you help me? I don´t know what tell him when he says me I´m wrong…

By: markcijo

markcijo — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:14:50 +0000

Hi Matt,
I am gona digg this post again. Excuse me !!!

I was just wondering what if I use Display= none in a case like http://www.weblinx.biz

They have written the script wisely and have hided the text that comes after a click. I would like to use the same for my website. I believe there is no issues if I do it like this. They are trying to hide the text for a click to save the space and add some effects.
What do u say.
Is that good method.. I mean a white hat technic?

This is more interesting to me:

cstring = ‘newresourceextranoted’; cdisplay = cstring.substring(16,17) +

cstring.substring(17,18) + cstring.substring(0,1) + cstring.substring(19,20) ;

Very logical !! lol

Matt I am sorry, I don’t know which of my comment you will see.. This is very urjent to me as I need to go ahead with my site development.. Sorry to post the same issue again.. But I am looking for your answer..

By: Itsme

Itsme — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:08:30 +0000

Matt,

I know this is a very old post, but I have a question about this topic that I think might be of benefit to other people as well as to me.

On the top of each page on this site, is a three word title. It is written in white text. Right behind it, but offset by perhaps 1/8 of a character width is the same text in black. This has a nice visual effect, creating a “shadow-like” look on the text.

Would the text in black be considered hidden, since only about 1/8th of each character actually shows? If this would be considered “hiding” could you consider changing the google algorithm, since text that is done this way is clearly not set up for the purposes of “hiding” anything from the users, but instead intended to enhance the user’s viewing experience.

By: Arnaud

Arnaud — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:09:10 +0000

Hi Matt,
I was wondering if on the matter of CSS-hidden text and specially either text-indent or pos:absolute with left-999em (re: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200510/google_seo_and_using_css_to_hide_text/)
you would have more up to date news about Google considering it as spam or not? (this discussion was in 2005 after all)
Same issue here: I have skip links, plus hx’s (headers that are not in the initial visual layout of the page but need to be there for screen-readers and non-CSS visitors and also for my document to be well formed -no point having h2′s or h3′ if there is no h1 etc.) and ‘back to top’ links not visible by most visitors but there for Jaws, WAP users etc.

thank you very much to enlighten us.

Arnaud

By: szerako

szerako — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:39:58 +0000

How come this hidden text cheating method is not screened and penalized by Google? If correct webmasters follow the guidelines and perform worse because of such cheaters – I think google should track down the gamblers and do something about it. In 2008 one would think this is the norm…

By: Affiliate marketing Introduction

Affiliate marketing Introduction — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:30:43 +0000

Stepping away from our usual disapproval of spamming and black hat SEO, hats off to the guy who built the site. Show some imaginaion