I added a marquee to my homepage in order to add additional keyword rich content to the page without dramatically affecting the layout of the page. Does anyone know if this can negativley affect my rankings? Does google view this as spamy or discount that content entirely? Whats the word on this?
If it's the marquee tag, Firefox doesn't support it, dunno about Search engines. If its javascript one no Search engine will count it
Marquee is an ancient tag. I use it on one of my websites, It still ranks well. I assume the SE probobaly just reads the text as is. It will ad to your keyword density etc. but dont make it a list of keywords, that looks spammy no matter what tag its in.
Search engines consider any text which is visible to visitors and is natural as genuine text. Marquee is one which is visible to both search engine and users, so there is no negative about it.
Marquee used to only work in IE, but now other browsers have incorporated it. I fon't know why because they look horrible and make a page load slowly - so bad for SEO. But not much impact TBH.
I don't see anything wrong with it in terms of SEO as long as you do not repeat your keywords like for about a hundred times. To viewers of this marquee effect you have, they might have a hard time reading the content.
The element's code currently looks like this: <marquee align="middle"bgcolor="#ffffff"behavior="scroll"direction="left"height="16px"width="100%"hspace="0"vspace="0"loop="-1" scrollamount="10"scrolldelay="10">keywords = amateur, code, computing, desktop, detail, error, geek, hardware, hint, installation, internet, minimalism, non-setup, obsession, principle, setup, shell, software, system, tip, tweak, unix</marquee>
I think she knows marquee well that is why she is avoiding it. Marquee can only be used on purpose and is not applicable all the time. So if you think it is non-sense to put one, then don't ever.