This is a first for me...I'm auditing a site that has keywords hidden in an H1 tag so they don't appear on the page.
<h1 style="display:none;">huge bunch of keywords listed here</h1>
Bad right?
Thanks,
Caro
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Is This A H1 Style No-No?
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Say Yebo
, Mar 05 2013 06:37 PM
Best Answer qwerty , 05 March 2013 - 07:39 PM
Yeah, bad. Any text that's hidden and can't be made visible by some user action is pure spam. Sticking it in a heading tag probably just means that they're a little more confused.
I recently came across some pages where paragraphs are nested in <h1> tags that are given a special class name that the CSS formats to look like normal text. Bad idea, right? These people actually thought that putting pretty much the whole page in headings would make it rank better. And what's the name of that CSS class that reformats the text? "SEO" 
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Posted 05 March 2013 - 07:39 PM Best Answer
Yeah, bad. Any text that's hidden and can't be made visible by some user action is pure spam. Sticking it in a heading tag probably just means that they're a little more confused.
I recently came across some pages where paragraphs are nested in <h1> tags that are given a special class name that the CSS formats to look like normal text. Bad idea, right? These people actually thought that putting pretty much the whole page in headings would make it rank better. And what's the name of that CSS class that reformats the text? "SEO"
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Posted 06 March 2013 - 10:08 AM
Thanks qwerty, I figured as much. I had never encountered this particular trick before.
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