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Barry made a great find today on SE Roundtable, about a Google Groups discussion of hidden text caused by using CSS. Apparently, I’m not the only one who’s had this exact discussion with multiple clients in the past three weeks. Anyhoo…..the discussion revolves around the newly expanded Webmaster Guidelines, particularly as they address hidden text. CSS is commonly used to hide text, sometimes for nefarious reasons, but sometimes simply to make sure that appropriate text appears when users don’t have the latest browser installed, or surf with images/javascript turned off, etc. The full discussion runs about 50 posts at this point, but the important answer (direct link) comes from Susan Moskwa of the Google Webmaster...

Barry made a great find today on SE Roundtable, about a Google Groups discussion of hidden text caused by using CSS. Apparently, I’m not the only one who’s had this exact discussion with multiple clients in the past three weeks. Anyhoo…..the discussion revolves around the newly expanded Webmaster Guidelines, particularly as they address hidden text. CSS is commonly used to hide text, sometimes for nefarious reasons, but sometimes simply to make sure that appropriate text appears when users don’t have the latest browser installed, or surf with images/javascript turned off, etc. The full discussion runs about 50 posts at this point, but the important answer (direct link) comes from Susan Moskwa of the Google Webmaster...

By the time people are looking to automate a no cost SEO technique, as a competitive strategy it is already dead.

YouTube has gotten a lot of press lately, mainly from copyright lawsuits at home and YouTube bans around the world. While some of these YouTube bans have been temporary, other YouTube bans, like the ones in Iran and The United Arab Emirates, look like they will be there for a while. Most YouTube bans in other countries seem to revolve around videos that mock or convey a negative image of that nation's current leaders or other well-known national figures. As communications technologies, combined with the recent surge of social sites, have made the world a smaller place, these YouTube bans...

The concept of being penalized by the search engines for duplicate content can be confusing. Ross Dunn discusses five kinds of duplicate content and gives guidelines to bring each within safe parameters: (1) website mirroring, (2) article syndication, (3) multiple available versions of content, (4) repetition in e-commerce product pages, and (5) quoting others. Date: May 24, 2007, 09:06