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More options Feb 21, 7:56 pm

From: travisstone

Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:56:43 -0800 (PST)

Local: Thurs, Feb 21 2008 7:56 pm

Subject: Re: Is using AJAX/CSS to show/hide divs considered black hat

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This is an interesting topic- has anyone weighed in on replacing H1
text with images? There a a couple of sites I work on where this is
the case; The H1 tag encloses text which is, in this example, the
Company name- then, the text is replaced by an image using css ...
Since the image is in effect creating a 'nicer' display of the very
text within the H1, it wouldn't seem to violate the guidelines. Still
though, I wonder if this could have a negative consequence. Any
thoughts?

Trav

On Feb 20, 1:05 pm, Wysz wrote:

> Hi ZydoSEO,

> For an overview of common questions regarding how Google views text
> that is temporarily hidden as part of a site's functionality, check
> out this post I made a few months ago:http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing/browse_...

> If you don't have time to read that, here's the brief, one-sentence
> summary: If your text is temporarily "hidden" as part of your site's
> UI but is still intended for the user to see at some point, you
> probably don't need to worry about Google mistakenly viewing it as
> deceptive.

> From what you've described, your implementation sounds like a common
> design that is focused on usability, and should fall well within our
> Webmaster Guidelines. Cheers to Autocrat for the suggestions; making
> sure your site is functional without JavaScript enabled is great for
> both search engines and users!

> - Wysz

> On Feb 19, 11:34 am, ZydoSEO wrote:

> > Thanks... Yea we honestly are not trying to do anything blackhat
> > here. Just attempting to make the most of the above the fold screen
> > real estate by reusing a section of the page to display answers for
> > multiple commonly asked questions.

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