Hiding text from the search engines..
- SEO |
"Towards the end of 2010 I have seen many websites just drop out of the rankings. They had been fine for over a year then all of a sudden a complete loss of rankings over night. On further inspection I noticed that a lot of these websites had hidden content when JavaScript was disabled.
I have also read somewhere (can't remember where sorry guys) that Google now recognizes hidden content and flags it. Your site is then liable to get penalized if they feel it is not sticking to their guidelines. One of the many SEO tips I could give you for 2011 would be to avoid using this technique."
Does anyone agree with the above statement? - as I frequently hide text from the search engines, for example: creating an image-based title (since the browser doesn't recognise our corporate font, and having a h1 or span with a 'display:none' tag - an old technique though as I now just relatively position the image on top of the text ensuring the image is bigger). :confused:
If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.