Re: "hidden text" vs. META tags for robots/search engines
Can Ozturan (ozturanc@cs.rpi.edu)
Fri, 06 Sep 1996 13:58:20 -0400
>I presume they are doing this because the META "keywords" tag doesn't cover all
>robots out
>there? Can anybody provide insight to this issue? I don't like the idea of th
i
>s "hidden text" at
>the bottom of my pages. Compuserv's browser doesn't handle colored text, so it
>isn't even
>hidden for those users. I'd prefer not to use this method of "hidden text" if
I
> don't have to, but
>I don't want to exclude my content from popular search engines either.
>
>Thanks for any information you can provide.
>
>Todd Sellers
They may be using invisible text (same as background color) and
include very "popular" words (e.g. obscene words ! ) which attract
a lot of people. Hence search engines will show up their pages even
though their site might not even have material related to popular words.
i guess this may be a way of drawing customers to their sites..
-- C. Ozturan.