Your SEO person could be right, The last time I designed SEO, "hidden text" aka "white text" made pages deprocated in search results.
SEO changes all the time, but I'd err on the side of caution. Why not try a yellow highlight if it fits in with you're color scheme, it's the most "outstanding" color in the spectrum. Rich On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:43 AM, stefano <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, I have a list of items to sell on a landing page. > >From left to right each item has a clickable thumbnail, the name > (big) followed by the description (small) and a big green button to > buy. > I want to highlight 1 sentence in the description (4 words in a > description of 30 words) and I want the user to read those sentences > as soon as the page load, before the item name, before some other > bold contents in the page. > My idea was to highlight it (background color) with the blue > (#316AC5) that Windows uses when you select any text and make the > text white. > We did several usability tests and it seems to work very good but the > SEO dept says I cannot write any keyword in white as we have a white > background in the page and it could be considered as spam by google. > Tried with a light yellow behind a bold blak but it doesn't work > well as the blue I used before. > Any suggestions for those colors? > I also suggested to use a #FFFFFE (or any very light silver) text on > a that blue background but SEO keeps saying google would consider it > spam as well. > Any idea if this SEO belief is true?? > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Joseph Rich Rogan President UX/UI Inc. http://www.jrrogan.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
