[BNM] SEO & display:none and getting banned on Google

[Paul Silver]

There is some limited evidence of some of the search engines spidering
CSS files, so you might get caught from that. More likely is getting
caught by having a competitor report the site, how likely that is
depends on the area that's being targeted. 

Also more likely is triggering an automatic filter which finds multiple
h1 tags in a block and decides to just ignore them - though it'll be
tricky to know if that's ever happened. It probably wouldn't be banned
just for this, more likely is that content just being ignored. 

Aside: it's a bit of a piss-poor effort at SEO, but you all ready know
that!

Cheers

Paul

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:26:34 +0100, "delarge" said:
> Hey SEO peeps out there
> 
> A company who recently lauched a site for us have slapped something like
> this up top:
> 
> <div id="seo">
> 
> <h1>Descriptive header</h1>
> <h1>Descriptive header</h1>
> <h1>Descriptive header</h1>
> <h1>Descriptive header</h1>
> <h1>Descriptive header</h1>
> 
> </div>
> 
> and lo & behold, the CSS file says:
> #seo {display:none}
> 
> (seo? I think not)
> 
> Now am I correct in thinking that this might/will get us blacklisted by
> Google?
> Or would it have to take someone reporting us for that to happen?
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