newseed Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 I know that Google will penalize sites using techniques to hide text but is visible for search engines. I'd never heard of doing this before but a client requested this kind of technique where they would use text-indent: -9999px to move it off the screen. This seem old school and not advised to use. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSW Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 -9999px was what we used to make disjointed rollovers, off page then moved on when rolloed over. I did see a blog that complained he was penalized for this by Google even though it is a old accessibility move as hiding them can make content unusable, I will see if I can find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newseed Posted January 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 I've found this on Google but it really doesn't go into specifics about text-indent and if it falls in the lines of hiding text regardless what's it meant for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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