On 11/18/05 2:25 AM, "justin norton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello again, > > The following is a link to a website that uses the hCard micro-format and it > is from the article on this website that I posed my original question as to > whether micro-formats could be considered spam due to hidden text. Sorry I > should have provided the reference sooner.: > > http://usabletype.com/articles/2005/usable-microformats/ Yes, that's a good article. Thanks for providing the reference. I have summarized the responses to your earlier query in the comments there as well. I'd suggest if you want to continue the discussion about spam (which is not particularly on topic for that introductory article), that you please do so on the list here. > This example of micro-formats does indeed use hidden text via CSS for the > on-page display of address information. Where? I searched the entire article for "none" both in the text and the code and didn't find any instances. Therefore there is no use of "display:none" and no hidden text via CSS. > Here is a useful article regarding SEO and hidden text from one of Google's > engineers, Matt Cutts: Note that Matt Cutts is one of the inventors of the rel-nofollow microformat: http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-nofollow > http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-mistakes-unwise-comments/ > > Although the article mainly concerns the use of hidden comment text > throughout his blog there are references to NOT using CSS to hide text. As said before, microformats encourage the use of *visible data*, not invisible (meta)data, and thus microformats agrees with the position that you should NOT use CSS to hide microformatted content. And, read this blog post by Matt Cutts where he makes some good points about microformats: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/web-20/ This quote is particularly telling: "And the data isn¹t out-of-band like RSS isit¹s incorporated on the HTML pageso it¹s a little easier to handle." As far as we know, the source you cite, Matt Cutts, thinks microformats are "Pretty neat stuff." > Check out this article for further references: > > http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/2005/11/jagger-or-jger-googles-update.html > > Let me know what you think, maybe the question could do with clarification > from Google themselves. See above. As far as I can tell you did not raise any new issues with this email as compared to your previous email on this topic: http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-November/0019 95.html Did you receive the responses to your earlier email which answered your questions? http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-November/0019 96.html http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-November/0019 97.html http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-November/0019 98.html http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-November/0019 99.html Thanks, Tantek _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
