Hi, Marty...thanks for the article reference... I can see how techniques using unrelated keywords/phrases would be discouraged and even banned, but I wonder what Google's, et al, response would be to using legitimate keywords/phrases with techniques like white text over a white image.
The keywords/phrases I would use, if I were to even use a technique (which I haven't found necessary to get good results), would be the same ones I would use in the text of the regular pages. I am interested in using such a technique (colored text over a same-colored image) primarily on opening "splash" pages, where the emphasis is on graphic design and not content. On pages such as these, there may not even be any text that is readable by the bot. I wouldn't even want to use an alt tag because I wouldn't want it to pop up when the image had mouse point over it. I may have to contact Google and ask that question... Rick -----Original Message----- From: Marty Johll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:39 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: search engines For more information, here's a slashdot article: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/31/196220&tid=217 On Apr 4, 2005 4:26 PM, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good to know....thanks for the heads up, Dave! > > Rick > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 5:15 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: search engines > > Someone brought up serving up different content to a bot then to the viewers > as being a viable solution but wordpress just found out the hard way thats > not the way to go. > > "Google officials declined to comment on why WordPress.org pages had > dropped from the company's index, but its Webmaster policies bar techniques > that display different content to its crawler than to site visitors." > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:201488 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
