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Old 07-24-2007, 02:39 AM
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Old 07-24-2007, 02:41 AM
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Hi H2o...

Text that is visible to the search engine spiders but not to site visitors.
Hidden text is primarily used to add extra keywords in the page without actually adding content to a site which may mostly consist of images. Most search engines will penalize Web sites which use hidden text.
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Old 12-19-2007, 04:15 PM
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Hi H2o...

Text that is visible to the search engine spiders but not to site visitors.
Hidden text is primarily used to add extra keywords in the page without actually adding content to a site which may mostly consist of images. Most search engines will penalize Web sites which use hidden text.
I have a question about this.
Let's say you have a Blogger blog where you use a logo. To make an example name, Let's say it is "Dinosaurz Fan Blog."

You want "Dinosaurz" as a gif or jpeg logo and then "Fan Blog" in text below it.
Now the problem with that is the fact that if you only use "Fan Blog" as the title in the search results the site will be listed as "Fan Blog" only (not Dinosaurz Fan Blog).

If you change the title to Dinosaurz Fan Blog and change the color to blend into the background (hiding it), then you can Put the "Dinosaurz" logo and the "Fan Blog" text like you want to display. And in the search results it will appear as "Dinosaurz Fan Blog"

But would Google, etc. consider that keyword spamming? Will you be penalised? There doesn't seem to be any other way to do it though...
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