I know this is naughty....but Using stylesheet, if I were to pick the same colour for a certain text and page background, how would search engine (e.g. google) know that some texts are hidden from the page? I can imagine it may be possible to detect if I was using html < font > tag and bgcolor attribute to change the colour on the page. Would it be wise to change the colour slightly so that it's not considered the same?? Would they penalise for it? Would they also detect and penalise if I used < h1 > tag but choose really small font size in CSS?
Your keyword stuffing will be detected and you will be penalized. Google is smarter than you. Be productive with your time instead of spending it trying to cheat the system.
Don't cheat. Google knows all, and they will catch you. Your site will be penalized and you won't get any search engine traffic once you're caught. Just write valuable content each and every day, and try to use your keywords in your content without making it too obvious, because that will scare away your readers. If you'd like to learn more about these kinds of topics, you can check out my own blog. The link is in my signature. Thanks!
Well, exactly. If CSS is not crawled by spiders because css folder is *disallowed* in robots text .... Ok, there is always a chance that it can be reviewed by a person though.
It's not Google you need to worry about, your first competitor to spot it will report it to Google ASAP! Then you're bust and your competitor is smiling!
This is one of the old black hat techniques used and Google banished it years ago and started to penalise sites. You will definatly be caught so beware! TD
A lot of the time, if it doesnt seem fair, then it isnt a good way to go about ranking. If your site isnt good enough to rank at the top, then it doesnt belong there. Spend more time writing good content rather than trying to cheat you way up through the rankings.
This would probably have worked well in 2001 It might still do a decent job of helping you rank in MSN. Oh, you guys havent heard of it... Its Microsoft attempt at a search engine hehe
you are right, your competitor is the eye for the search engine, they will report to the search engine and your website is gone maybe forever.
OK guys, I take what you say but WHO would use BIG < h1 > tag these days? It messes up the look & feel of the site. So one would have to ask a question "how small can you make H1 tag?" Size matters....right?