BlackHat CSS

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When will Google attack CSS layout that puts text -2000px of a page? example;
<div id="aprimary-nav">
<ul class="nav">
<li id="aprimary-nav-1"><span>Home</span>

#aprimary-nav a span { position: absolute; left: -2000px; width: 999px; }

Has anyone seen anybody getting affected by this sort of coding? There is no blackhat intent here at all in fact. One thing i guess google could/is? do is just notice this and disregard the link? I want to use images instead of text in the design ...

[greeneagle]

An interesting page:
http://www.blackhatseo.com/

Another one:.. oh what the heck? Top 3 results in a Google search for Css Spam result in these top 3 results:

CSS SPAM - Out of Control!CSS SPAM is out of control - Expect the Search Engines to make a major algorithm change soon.
http://www.mountaineagleweb.com/Mark...%20Control.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages


Google Engineer Hammered over CSS Spam Comments | Threadwatch.orgIf you're straight-out using CSS to hide text, don't be surprised if that is called spam. I'm not saying that mouseovers or DHTML text or ...
www.threadwatch.org/node/4313 - 30k - Cached - Similar pages


[WebProWorld] CSS Spam is Out of Control!CSS Spam is Out of Control! The extensive abuse of CSS Spam techniques to hide text, keywords and gateway URLs has grown to be a phenomenal problem. ...
www.webproworld.com/newsletter/032305.html - 23k - Cached - Similar pages

CSS Spam has been a problem for a while. They are working on it.

Ken

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Thanks Ken the responses from Matt Cutts on threadwatch were interesting. I have decided to play it safe and remove the images and just have text buttons. I feel that i should not really have to be concerned about it though. Google should just come out and say we will do this. All the smoke and mirrors does not help anyone;

CSS

We can flag text that appears to be hidden using CSS at Google. To date we have not algorithmically removed sites for doing that. We try hard to avoid throwing babies out with bathwater.
By MattCutts at Fri, 2005-10-21 02:09 | login or register to post comments | top