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Re: Skip links and SEO

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From: Nelson-Brooks, Carolyn
Date: May 2, 2007 9:40AM

Hi all,

I agree with Michael and probably others of you who like the skip links.
What is the problem with making life a little easier for us who don't
want to hear all the garbage on the screen when you can just skip all of
that and save time.


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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Michael R.
Burks
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:33 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Skip links and SEO


Why hide the skip links at all?

I find them useful.

Others may as well. Or are we only building pages that cater to one
disability?

Sincerely,
Mike Burks





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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of ben morrison
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Skip links and SEO

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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Ben Morrison
http://www.benjaminmorrison.com