can google get confused.

#1

Well obviously it can't be coded to fully understand any possible event it
runs into, but I was just wonder if any has any experience with it
confusing colors for hidden text. The following is a snip of code that I
want to use on my web site. I just want to be sure that google wont get
confused and think that I am trying to hide text.

<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#000000">
<tr bgcolor="#ffffff">
<td>one</td>
<td>one info</td>
</tr>
</table>

#2

d0x wrote in
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Quote:

Well obviously it can't be coded to fully understand any possible
event it runs into, but I was just wonder if any has any experience
with it confusing colors for hidden text. The following is a snip of
code that I want to use on my web site. I just want to be sure that
google wont get confused and think that I am trying to hide text.

table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#000000"
tr bgcolor="#ffffff"
td>one</td
td>one info</td
/tr
/table

You should be specifying a color as well as a background color and, to widen
the issue slightly, you ought to be using CSS rather than the deprecated
bgcolor.

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#3

PeterMcC wrote:

Quote:

d0x wrote in
pan.2004.08.15.01.50.53.353303 (AT) no (DOT) spam

Well obviously it can't be coded to fully understand any possible
event it runs into, but I was just wonder if any has any experience
with it confusing colors for hidden text. The following is a snip of
code that I want to use on my web site. I just want to be sure that
google wont get confused and think that I am trying to hide text.

table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#000000"
tr bgcolor="#ffffff"
td>one</td
td>one info</td
/tr
/table

You should be specifying a color as well as a background color and,
to widen the issue slightly, you ought to be using CSS rather than
the deprecated bgcolor.

I appear to have had home page PR zeroed due to putting all the text
(intentionally white) on a hidden white bgcolor (which was my mistake - it
came with the page template I used) as follows:
<body background="darkblueshades.jpg" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#FFFF00"
vlink="#00FFFF">
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" etc
With the nice darkblueshades.jpg image background, the page looked perfectly
good to the viewer.

I have now modified the page, but added far more complexity with various
tables and assorted combinations of white text on blue and very dark grey
backgrounds. If I ever get the PR back I will let everyone know.

Best regards, Eric.

#4

d0x wrote:

Quote:

Well obviously it can't be coded to fully understand any possible
event it runs into, but I was just wonder if any has any experience
with it confusing colors for hidden text. The following is a snip of
code that I want to use on my web site. I just want to be sure that
google wont get confused and think that I am trying to hide text.

table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#000000"
tr bgcolor="#ffffff"
td>one</td
td>one info</td
/tr
/table

That's so '96. Why don't you go for stylesheets? I *never* had any
problem with using CSS and being indexed by Google.

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