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ianwarren
09-02-2006, 01:22 PM
I work for a modelling agency and I've just taken on the task of optimising the website. I was doing some searches in google and I noticed that one site was getting ranked consistently highly. I took a look at their source code and somehow they have managed to get a layer of hidden keyword text in some sort of hidden layer behind the actual visible page.

It looks like they're using this code: to hide the text:

(in index page) <div id="etmark" style="visible:hidden;">

(in css) #etmark {
position:absolute;
left:100px;
top:100px;
z-index:1;
visibility:hidden;
}

but I was under the impression that non visible text was blacklisted by google these days? I'm new to SEO and everything like this but this is something that google make very clear they exclude.

Could anybody help me out with what these guys have done here as they are getting very good rankings... and I want them too! :D

webkidsan
09-02-2006, 02:28 PM
You will come across sites that get away with things like that... if theyare ranking high right now they will get nailed evenually .. but if they are doign black hat seo doesent mean that u have to do that ... beside dont worry too much about other sites ... just make your site a a great site and get higher ranking then u would care less what they are doing ....

JohnW
09-03-2006, 09:44 AM
Google has a hard time spotting this, but it is not safe to do stuff like this because a competitor can easily find it and file a a spam report.

Do it here http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
and here
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/ysearch/cgi_reportsearchspam

SuperZu
09-04-2006, 01:09 PM
You can also file a spam report through Google's Webmaster Central (ex Sitemaps). In the top right corner there's a little "tool" onebox where you can report spam in the index. I've been told that this method is more effective than filing a regular spam report.

webkidsan
09-04-2006, 06:52 PM
Stop wasting your time on other sites ... you will come across billion of sites that Might be doing these kind of stuff ... most of the sites doing this has crappy sites and crappy products, then whats the point of ranking high ... just work on your site ....

IgorMordkovich
09-05-2006, 12:09 PM
Report them and move on.