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Hidden Text Penalties

By: Lee Johnson - SEO Manager - CustomerStreet
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Feb
11

Are you aware of the penalties for using hidden text? This out dated technique is Spam. Never try to add keywords or text to a page, in the same color font as the exact background color, thus making text appear hidden.

Spam Alert: Don’t EVER use hidden text, hidden links or hidden “anything” on a page unless you want to risk setting off some warning flags and risk getting in trouble.

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On Tue 12 Feb Alex wrote :

You simply can’t beat the old ‘hot-linkers’ that used to fill their pages with links off site and hide them by using the exact background colour on the href. That and keywords. I believe that google now has a very specific ability to check for this and removes indexes for sites doing just that

On Fri 7 Mar Tim Smith wrote :

Good quality content is always the route to take, its surprising to see that some people still persist with spammy attempts at SEO. Take a look at my article on the customer street forum to see my views on the subject http://www.customer-street-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13

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