On 7/24/07, H. Bartel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > if I use a <span> inside a headline to substitute a .png image with text in > IE5.5 which is set to display: none, does this effect Google or general > search engine indexing in a negative way? > > It usually looks like: > <h2><img src="images/img.png" alt="one or two words" width="170" height="18" > /><span>one or two words</span></h2> > Googlebot (and bots in general) will ignore the stylesheet, so it will read and index the text which you hide. However, there was a passing fad for keyword spamming by stuffing lots of (usually off-topic) keywords into an element with inline styling to hide it - until search bots started detecting and punishing that. I believe the bots are clever enough to discriminate between keyword stuffing and normal Image replacement methods, however. Just stick to having the text match the alt attribute and you should be fine.
-- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
