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

[alex // evolutions]

We had something similar about a year ago where suddenly a lot of our sites
were dropped by google for doing this type of thing. Slightly more
sofisticated but essentially showing google something other than what the
user would see. We've found it very hard to get those sites back into google
since...

Cheers
Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: delarge [mailto:delargerock at gmail.com] 
Sent: 02 October 2006 11:27
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: [BNM] SEO & display:none and getting banned on Google

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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