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

[Jim H.]

>From SEW forums,

Google is no longer indexing hidden div tags. Spammers used hidden divs to
hide content, but also many non-spammers and even non-SEOs have used them
for design purposes.

Some people are reporting that they are penalised, some are seeing no
penalty at all. It may be because the CSS is off the page. Supposedly, if
you do not have it on page, then this won't be an issue.

Reccomendation was - Move that CSS off the page, to an external style sheet.
Then maybe, block the robots.txt from those files.

Clear as mud but obviously becoming an issue as so open to abuse like old
meta description data...


On 02/10/06, delarge <delargerock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> Paul Burgess
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