Google CSS Question

[EcommerceDealers]

Google CSS Question

Lot of sites totally disappeared from Google's listing recently due to CSS spam.
My question is which of the following CSS codes should be removed from the sites
to prevent being blacklisted in Google.


1) The one used to change the color of H1 tag to background color

H1 { color:#FFFFFF}

2) The one to reduce the font size of H1 Tag.

H1 { font-size: 1pt }

3) The above two methods together as in;

H1 { color:#FFFFFF ; font-size: 1pt;}


4) The following CSS hides all HTML code or Text in-between <DIV> and </DIV> tags:-

<div align="center" id="HideMe" style="position: absolute; visibility:hidden">

.... HTML OR Text goes here ..........

</div>


The first 3 CSS styles can be considered as black-hat tricks. What about the 4th one ?
Because, the "visibility:hidden" has been used in thousand of pages that use DHTML popups, scroll-over effects etc.

I highly appreciate your comments on this.

Could you please post few examples of CSS to be avoided.


Thanks in advance,

Ali.

[Webnauts]

Maybe the info here may help you out:
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archiv..._to_hide_text/

Some more valuable info, see our thread here: http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=55705

[greeneagle]

EcommerceDealers,

What are you doing and why?

Ken

[KeithO]

I use hidden css all the time for navigation menus and occasional roll overs.

[EcommerceDealers]

Ken,

As KeithO said, I also use css for DHTML Popups and roll overs. I have used css to reduce the size of H1 tag to 12pt (NOT 1pt). Unfortunately, my site has been removed completely in this update.

Ali.

[brian.mark]

If the text isn't ever visible to the user, then get rid of it. Make your sites for visitors and the rest will take care of itself (in an indeal world). Don't mislead with on-page tactics. Those are easy to prove it was you doing it. Off-page doesn't carry the same penalties, just usually gets discounted.

If you really want to game the system, use links from relevant sites and build great content. Oh, that's so white-hat and has worked so well for many of us here. Sorry to ruin the fun of trying to "get away with one".

Brian.

[KeithO]

http://www.mvpclubcorp.com/
there are 3 sites in there that we recently went live with. all 3 have a simlar feel but are also using hidden css for the navigation. nothing sinister about what we are using for this application.

[brian.mark]

http://www.mvpclubcorp.com/
there are 3 sites in there that we recently went live with. all 3 have a simlar feel but are also using hidden css for the navigation. nothing sinister about what we are using for this application.

Absolutely. That's designed to be seen by the user and used by the user. Stuff that has the intention of never being seen by a user is what they want to prevent from affecting rank in a positive manner.

If that's all that you're hiding, then you'll have to look elsewhere for your problems.

Brian.