Can Invisible Text in CSSs Slip Under Search Engine Radar?
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Is using invisible text in cascading style sheets good? Nope!
There’s a new school of thought claiming you can use an alternative cascading style sheet (CSS) approach to placing invisible text on your web pages without penalty.
The theory is predicated on the premise that you could employ an external style sheet in another directory. There you’ d simply define a special class for a tag like < P > where the font and background colors are identical.
The claim is there’s no way for the current search engines algorithms to distinguish the color codes and penalize you. While this may or may not be the immediate situation it’s fundamentally WRONG!
Invisible text is invisible text & it's spam.
Since many invisible text tricks utilize CSS positioning properties to hide their contents, you’ll soon see (if not already) the search engines employing advanced algorithms to find hidden text in CSSs.
If you subscribe to the CSS theory you’ll undoubtedly be revisiting your strategy or paying later by being blacklisted or removed entirely from the various search engine indexes."
posted by Jen @ 3:35 PM
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