Google do remove pages from their index. Current case in point is WordPress.
Andre Torrez <http://notes.torrez.org/> was the first to note that links to the articles (168,000 of them!) <del>are</del>were hidden on the Wordpress homepage using negative positioning with CSS.
See http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/03/30/wordpres.shtml for more.
Ben.
Kay Smoljak wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:46:23 +0100, Mike Foskett
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I don't actually believe that CSS styling will make any difference to search engine ranking.
These robots spend enough time trawling through the HTML content.
It would be time wasted to cross reference the content against: visibility, display, colours used, z-index and positioning.
You can see what search engines request by looking at your log files. They've never requested my css files. However, I read somewhere a Google staff member said something like "we reserve the right to index css files or not" which means they may start in the future.
Does anyone actually know of a page barred, blacklisted or banned by Google?
I somehow doubt they ever do.
They do ban sites - it happened to one of my clients (although nothing to do with css) and it took about eight months of campaigning to get the site included again. However, the biggest risk is your competitors - if I see a site spamming a search engine I report it. Many people do the same, and there *have* been cases of the engines taking action.
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