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Image Over Text OK for SEO?

by Bruce Wedding
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I'm pretty good at ranking WP blogs using the normal things, Title, Permalinks, H1 tags.

I've got one ranked for the words I want using H1 tags in the body, as the headline for the sales page. But, it looks like crap. I like to do graphical headlines in Photoshop.

So I had this brainstorm I'm testing. I'd love to hear if anyone else has tried this.

  1. I kept my H1 headlines on the page, just wrapped them a little tighter to fit in about 1/2 the page.
  2. I created graphical headlines in Photoshop.
  3. I uploaded the pic and using divs, absolutely positioned it OVER the H1 headline, effectively hiding it.
I don't think this is a keyword stuffing sin like using text the same color as the background. But I'm curious if Google is even smart enough to figure it out. Either way, my H1's say the same damn thing.


What do you guys think?
#image #seo #text
  • Profile picture of the author Warock
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    Image Over text ? this is hiding your text, this is blackhat SEO.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bruce Wedding
      Originally Posted by Warock View Post

      Image Over text ? this is hiding your text, this is blackhat SEO.
      Technically yes, but as I said, I'm not hiding stuffed keywords. I'm hiding the same keywords the image is showing.
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      • Profile picture of the author supaH
        Originally Posted by Bruce Wedding View Post

        Technically yes, but as I said, I'm not hiding stuffed keywords. I'm hiding the same keywords the image is showing.
        True, your not keyword stuffing. But you are hiding keywords/content, which is a nono.
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      • Profile picture of the author marketwarrior06
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        Originally Posted by Bruce Wedding View Post

        Technically yes, but as I said, I'm not hiding stuffed keywords. I'm hiding the same keywords the image is showing.
        Same thing dude. I think avoiding this process is good. Its totally a black hat method.
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  • Profile picture of the author sheldonlobo
    Use the limited text to optimize your image. e.g 50 maximum character
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  • Profile picture of the author CyborgX
    It all depends on the image, if the image makes the site look better and it should add alt text to it and you'll have the same result
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  • Profile picture of the author easypr
    Hidden text is black hat SEO. If use black hat techniques, then your website suffer in ranking
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  • Profile picture of the author Warock
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    Hiding Text is black hat SEO. Watch out beware not do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Justin Says
    Hiding text, no matter the scenario, is hiding text.

    Also note, the alt tag used in the image is considered the anchor text, remember that.

    Don't try to trick the search engines, it's not worth it.
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  • Profile picture of the author mangomedia1
    Ofcourse , it is block hat seo techniques .
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    If you're concerned about the way your pages "look", just apply a style to your header tags using css.

    There should be no need for such tom foolery.
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  • Profile picture of the author Khairi Hafizi
    why dont u just set the colour of the text similar to the background? it can hide the text also,isn't it? but this is one of the illegal way and you will be penalized if Google know about it..
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  • Profile picture of the author jfambrini
    I think it will be okay. It does not really fall into hidden text as you have alt text in image and have a valid H1 tag. Go for it.
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