Comments on: Google guidelines against modern web development?

By: mike

mike — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:20:28 +0000

I wish in Scotland we could get developers who can program for the web - rather than wanting to make games, or applets all the time. Every developer I seem to work with now thinks dotnet is great and has never read googles terms and conditions. Spend time training them up more than anything.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:59:42 +0000

I almost always use scripts to show text and links if a plugin isn’t available on the client side. Yes I do make this SEO friendly but it’s hardly fair to get penalised given that I’m not keyword jamming.

By: Luke Visinoni

Luke Visinoni — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:47:14 +0000

Who says they don’t?

By: WraithStrider

WraithStrider — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:38:32 +0000

I think google should employ human evaluators on their suspected sites

By: johnsons

johnsons — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:09:53 +0000

True-you are right,I am with your view.Hiding text is only furnishing glamour to sites…

By: Luke Visinoni

Luke Visinoni — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:35:21 +0000

So what if you are simply doing something like the following to display an image representing the text?

My website

#my-website {background: url(images/mysite.gif) no-repeat left top;}
#my-website span {display:none}

I think it's kind of silly to punish somebody for this, but then again it must be quite difficult to tell what is blackhat and what isn't. This is an issue I am always worried about because occasionally I use techniques like this. I learned to do it from CSSZenGarden, and I always thought they knew what they were doing.

By: Web Developer

Web Developer — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:22:51 +0000

I think the main purpose of their guidelines is to tell the people to not to hide any text from the visitor, no matter what the technology used to hide the text. Obviously they will not write all the possible ways of hiding text… bottom line is, hiding the text is black hat, not matter how you hide it..

By: Olaf

Olaf — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 13:35:15 +0000

hehe, according the Google Guidelines is this a kind of Black Hat SEO:

http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html

(maybe I should warn Eric)

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 13:27:45 +0000

Got your point. I wouldn’t do that but in many cases you can

By: Olaf

Olaf — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 13:24:34 +0000

…yes right, not using them is always possible Would you use an XML request for some explaining text box which will show up onMouseOver?