> -----Original Message----- > From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] > On Behalf Of David Dixon > Sent: Wednesday, 27 May 2009 10:26 AM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility > > > The thing to remember is that while its doubtful google will spot it > through an automatic spider, google do manually check pages (either > randomly, or when the spider, or even a person, flag something up). Its > that manual detection that will spot this kind of fraud, and will > likely result in an immediate ban. >
I agree that only manual inspection will be able to find your hidden text. However, if it is obvious that the reason for you hiding the text is accessibility, rather than spamming search engines with your keywords, then they are very unlikely to ban your site. Google & Co are not out to ban any sites unless they have got a damn good reason to do so (otherwise they would be missing crucial results in their searches). If somebody uses hidden text to spam, that's one thing. But other than that... why would they ban you? It's not fraud if the hidden text provides similar information to what the rest of your website does, as long as it is in a reasonable format. I like Lea's approach: > -----Original Message----- > From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] > On Behalf Of Lea de Groot > [...] > I tend to use a class name like class="accessabilityonly" for these > fields, in the hopes of giving a reviewer at least a clue as to what I > am doing, but it isn't a well defined field. > [...] I would say: be reasonable with the information you put into the hidden fields so that somebody manually inspecting your site will let you get away with it. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4107 (20090527) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
