Matt Cutts Using CSS to hide Text and links on His Own Blog
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Matt Cutts Using CSS to hide Text and links on His Own Blog
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Re: Matt Cutts Using CSS to hide Text and links on His Own Blog
#2@matt cutts - Are you listening to this?
Re: Matt Cutts Using CSS to hide Text and links on His Own Blog
#3I think it's more interesting that he used rel="nofollow" on an anchor link. I think that shows that he isn't trying to optimize his own blog. This div was probably hidden while modifying the design and he never went back and deleted it from the footer.
Re: Matt Cutts Using CSS to hide Text and links on His Own Blog
#4Blogspam, not even linking to its source. Some mod please change the URL to http://edgyseo.com/wordpress/css-hidden-links/
edit: I guess Matt was just too lazy to fix the theme to not render the HTML of the "creds" so he removed them via CSS.
Re: Matt Cutts Using CSS to hide Text and links on His Own Blog
#5Wait a minute... isn't this just sloppy theme customization and not some greyhat SEO trick? Hardly the same thing.
Re: Matt Cutts Using CSS to hide Text and links on His Own Blog
#6From a few links in the footer? I think Matt gets the benefit of the doubt here. Clearly more hiding could have been done to really benefit from this. What a non-article--my fault since poor grammar was the first clue.
Re: Matt Cutts Using CSS to hide Text and links on His Own Blog
#7This is ridiculous, that's just the copyright/credits section of this wordpress theme.
For all you know, he could have paid for a license that allows him to remove that copyright notice; and maybe the theme hides it this way instead of actually removing it.
Re: Matt Cutts Using CSS to hide Text and links on His Own Blog
#8@matt cutts - Are you listening to this?
Why? This is stupid blogspam. It's a copyright section on a wordpress theme, no big deal.
Re: Matt Cutts Using CSS to hide Text and links on His Own Blog
#9Why is this on the frontpage of HN?
Re: Matt Cutts Using CSS to hide Text and links on His Own Blog
#10This is foolish. I can tell our author here is new to both web design and SEO, and needs some education:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353?hl=en
>"Are any text or links there solely for search engines rather than visitors?
However, not all hidden text is considered deceptive"
The rule is not, "no hidden elements anywhere ever." display:none is used extensively for menus, tabs, and interactive elements; there's a display:none on the home page of most major sites.
Here we have someone trying to create a controversy where there is none - probably for links. Even then, it would take a fair amount of ignorance about the internet to even write this post, as one would otherwise know how foolish it would look.