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Re: Skip links and SEO

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From: ben morrison
Date: May 2, 2007 9:30AM

On 5/2/07, Karl Groves < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> First, hidden text *does* work from an SEO standpoint. That's not the issue
> It is frowned upon not because it will hurt your rankings but because Google
> will out-and-out delist your site if they discover the hidden text.

We are after all only talking about a few hidden skiplinks, so I'm
sure those clever folk at google could work out an algorithm if they
deduced the CSS was hiding the links...

ben
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