Hey ya'll. I'm kinda new so bear with me. My web techie friend and I have a bet. I say in the source code if your background is white and the text reads "color=#FFFFF then you have hidden text. He thinks I'm wrong (again, I'm just getting the hang of all this). Could somebody help clear this up? I have $10 on this and would love to get it! Thanks!<!--content-->"Hidden Text" is not a technical term. It depends what you define as hidden text.<!--content-->Well, I was told that if the spiders see something the user can't, that it's "hidden text" and thus it's running the risk of being seen as spam. Can't that get you banned cuz all it is is keyword saturation for the spiders benefit as opposed to user benefit?<!--content-->hi Deborah...<br />
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time to collect on your bet:<br />
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enjoy spending it!!!<br />
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Any decent search engine doesn't reply on flawed methods like that. Some search engines may ignore text that is written in the same color as the background, and they don't show it in the description.<br />
But Google and other search algorithms are very complicated (including stuff like how many pages link to you, how important those pages are, etc).<!--content-->Ya'll Rock! Thanks for all the info--I'm printing all this out to show to my techie friend and receive my $$$. Thanks again, gang! deb<!--content-->You win the bet, but its Sort of true, sort of not. hidden text is hidden text.<br />
what it's used for is irrelevant to the term.<br />
ka-ching...<br />
it spends the same regardless!!!<br />
wooo-hooo!!!<br />
you go girl!!!<!--content-->True, but you will not get your page banned from engines for having hidden text.<br />
Either way, you did make 10 bucks
<!--content-->Now comes the newbie in me.....everything I have read (and believe me, the Library of Congress has NOTHING on me!) says "no hidden text" ad nauseam. Especially Google! What'd I miss? deb<!--content-->Follow up question:<br />
Does anyone know the 鎼昽lerance level?for these bots? In other words if my BG color is #FFFFFF and my text is #FFFFFE it鎶
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time to collect on your bet:<br />
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://websearch.about.com/library/glossary/bldef-hidden-text.htm">http://websearch.about.com/library/glos ... n-text.htm</a><!-- m --><br />
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enjoy spending it!!!<br />
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k<!--content-->You win the bet, but its Sort of true, sort of not.<br />Any decent search engine doesn't reply on flawed methods like that. Some search engines may ignore text that is written in the same color as the background, and they don't show it in the description.<br />
But Google and other search algorithms are very complicated (including stuff like how many pages link to you, how important those pages are, etc).<!--content-->Ya'll Rock! Thanks for all the info--I'm printing all this out to show to my techie friend and receive my $$$. Thanks again, gang! deb<!--content-->You win the bet, but its Sort of true, sort of not. hidden text is hidden text.<br />
what it's used for is irrelevant to the term.<br />
ka-ching...<br />
it spends the same regardless!!!<br />
wooo-hooo!!!<br />
you go girl!!!<!--content-->True, but you will not get your page banned from engines for having hidden text.<br />
Either way, you did make 10 bucks
<!--content-->Now comes the newbie in me.....everything I have read (and believe me, the Library of Congress has NOTHING on me!) says "no hidden text" ad nauseam. Especially Google! What'd I miss? deb<!--content-->Follow up question:<br />Does anyone know the 鎼昽lerance level?for these bots? In other words if my BG color is #FFFFFF and my text is #FFFFFE it鎶