Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-27 Thread Karl Lurman
with an unholy string containing keywords. Michael Hargreaves -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Chris Dimmock Sent: Wednesday, 27 May 2009 12:05 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] SEO vs

Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-27 Thread James Ellis
On Wed, 27 May 2009 12:04:48 pm Chris Dimmock wrote: We can flag text that appears to be hidden using CSS at Google. To date we have not algorithmically removed sites for doing that. We try hard to avoid throwing babies out with bathwater. MattCutts at Oct 21 2005 - 02:09 That was nearly 4

RE: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-27 Thread Hargreaves, Michael
: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility We can flag text that appears to be hidden using CSS at Google. To date we have not algorithmically removed sites for doing that. We try hard to avoid throwing babies out with bathwater. MattCutts at Oct 21 2005 - 02:09 That was nearly 4 years ago - One of the issues

RE: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-27 Thread Hargreaves, Michael
: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility We can flag text that appears to be hidden using CSS at Google. To date we have not algorithmically removed sites for doing that. We try hard to avoid throwing babies out with bathwater. MattCutts at Oct 21 2005 - 02:09 That was nearly 4 years ago - One of the issues

RE: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-27 Thread Ted Drake
@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility If I have a css sprite that needs an alt text I'll position it behind the image. My main reason for doing this has nothing to do with SEO though. With images off there is no context to what would've been rendered if images were on. In my

Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-26 Thread Tijmen Smit
I wouldn't worry about it. Search engines are smart enough to see the difference between trying to influence your ranking by spamming keyword etc. Or just have an item or 2 being placed of screen for accessibility reasons. Tijmen On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Spellacy, Michael

Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-26 Thread Lea de Groot
On 27/05/2009, at 2:26 AM, Spellacy, Michael wrote: It was recently brought to my attention that a few elements I have placed on a site that have text indented px to the left for accessibility might be viewed as a form of cloaking by some search engines. Is my colleague correct in this

Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-26 Thread Gaspar
I think that if these texts are anchors for internal navigation or links with relative URLs for pages on the site shouldn´t have no problems. 2009/5/26 Lea de Groot w...@elysiansystems.com On 27/05/2009, at 2:26 AM, Spellacy, Michael wrote: It was recently brought to my attention that a few

Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-26 Thread David Dixon
It will only be an issue if what you present to a user is different to what you present to a search engine. If what you're doing is using a text replacement technique using an image etc, then there are no problems with that. But if you are adding invisible headings or links etc (ie anything

RE: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-26 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of David Dixon Sent: Wednesday, 27 May 2009 10:26 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility The thing to remember is that while its doubtful google

Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-26 Thread James Ducker
I tend to use a class name like class=accessabilityonly for these fields, in the hopes of giving a reviewer at least a clue as to what I I'm the same, I use class=wai - James *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-26 Thread Chris Dimmock
We can flag text that appears to be hidden using CSS at Google. To date we have not algorithmically removed sites for doing that. We try hard to avoid throwing babies out with bathwater. MattCutts at Oct 21 2005 - 02:09 That was nearly 4 years ago - One of the issues is that sometimes, Google

RE: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-26 Thread Hargreaves, Michael
: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility We can flag text that appears to be hidden using CSS at Google. To date we have not algorithmically removed sites for doing that. We try hard to avoid throwing babies out with bathwater. MattCutts at Oct 21 2005 - 02:09 That was nearly 4 years ago - One of the issues