Comments on: Common SEO Mistakes: CSS Image Replacement http://www.latentmotion.com/css-image-replacement-mistakes/ Usability, Design and Front-Side Programming Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brett Barros http://www.latentmotion.com/css-image-replacement-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Brett Barros Mon, 17 May 2010 08:17:31 +0000 http://www.latentmotion.com/?p=81#comment-113 Right you are (were), thanks for reminding me. I'm now going to test having my individual pages be h1s, and look forward to seeing the results.<br><br>One of the potential pitfalls is that the styling of the title is designed to be exactly the same as the headers on the home page, which are rightfully h2s (repeating h1's would be no good). What effect will identically styled header tags be? Certainly Google knows the font size and other computed styles, and given that the header was an h2 on a page with no h1s, it may make no difference what-so-ever.<br><br>I'll let you know if I see anything interesting happen. Right you are (were), thanks for reminding me. I'm now going to test having my individual pages be h1s, and look forward to seeing the results.

One of the potential pitfalls is that the styling of the title is designed to be exactly the same as the headers on the home page, which are rightfully h2s (repeating h1's would be no good). What effect will identically styled header tags be? Certainly Google knows the font size and other computed styles, and given that the header was an h2 on a page with no h1s, it may make no difference what-so-ever.

I'll let you know if I see anything interesting happen.

]]> By: anon http://www.latentmotion.com/css-image-replacement-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-111 anon Fri, 14 May 2010 19:55:48 +0000 http://www.latentmotion.com/?p=81#comment-111 This page is missing an h1...http://www.latentmotion.com/css-image-replacement-mistakes/ This page is missing an h1…http://www.latentmotion.com/css-image-replacement-mistakes/

]]> By: trust-not http://www.latentmotion.com/css-image-replacement-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-107 trust-not Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:30:37 +0000 http://www.latentmotion.com/?p=81#comment-107 Ya. Be real careful where you use these techniques as maybe it's ok in a couple of static pages, but may be completely devastating when implemented in let's say: a few million dynamic pages... Consider the context, consider the text (as mentioned above), but most importantly you should consider the risk. Hate to first mention the G-word, but Google hasn't officially announced *any* real y/n as to whether this is a generally acceptable practice or not. In fact, Matt Cutts mentioned here <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-mistakes-unwise-comments/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-mistakes-unwi...</a> that he does not recommend hiding text with CSS and quote: "In turn, Google has the right to decide not to return that site in our search results, because we feel that hiding text that is not visible to users is deceptive." - Which is apparently what has happened in my case. Ya. Be real careful where you use these techniques as maybe it's ok in a couple of static pages, but may be completely devastating when implemented in let's say: a few million dynamic pages… Consider the context, consider the text (as mentioned above), but most importantly you should consider the risk. Hate to first mention the G-word, but Google hasn't officially announced *any* real y/n as to whether this is a generally acceptable practice or not. In fact, Matt Cutts mentioned here http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-mistakes-unwi... that he does not recommend hiding text with CSS and quote: “In turn, Google has the right to decide not to return that site in our search results, because we feel that hiding text that is not visible to users is deceptive.” – Which is apparently what has happened in my case.

]]> By: seoprofessional http://www.latentmotion.com/css-image-replacement-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-102 seoprofessional Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:17:01 +0000 http://www.latentmotion.com/?p=81#comment-102 thank you, excellent explanation! thank you, excellent explanation!

]]> By: seoprofessional http://www.latentmotion.com/css-image-replacement-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-10 seoprofessional Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:17:01 +0000 http://www.latentmotion.com/?p=81#comment-10 thank you, excellent explanation! thank you, excellent explanation!

]]> By: andrewjhonson http://www.latentmotion.com/css-image-replacement-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-9 andrewjhonson Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:33:39 +0000 http://www.latentmotion.com/?p=81#comment-9 This is indeed a great article. CSS always plays a vital role in web design and it always gives you opportunity to make your website Google friendly. I have compiled few factors 'why Google loves CSS' that you can check at <a href="http://www.bestpsdtohtml.com/get-to-know-why-css-is-good-for-google/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bestpsdtohtml.com/get-to-know-why-cs...</a> This is indeed a great article. CSS always plays a vital role in web design and it always gives you opportunity to make your website Google friendly. I have compiled few factors 'why Google loves CSS' that you can check at http://www.bestpsdtohtml.com/get-to-know-why-cs...

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