Hi!
I’ve got a question: If I style headlines (resp. lists with links) with a background-image (what the people see) and a text-indent of -9999px (what the machines see), the background-image is always the same image file, especially if I use it as a sprite or if I hide the h1 in the logo. Taking a look in the logfiles, I can see that the searchbots load css-files as well. I am just wondering about what these robot guys think about the fact, that there are five html-files whose h1 has different text with text-indent of -9999px but always the same h1-background-image. Do the know what’s happening when watching the page with human eyes? These human eyes would be a short algorithm only.
This is in priciple the same dirty trick as invisible keywords where in the 90ies – with the only diffenrece that we are not pornsite-gangsters anymore but want to make good=semantic content.
Does anyone of you have any experience how this may influence the ranking?
For instance:
The background-image file says: Proceedings in advanced ontology and semitotics.
The indented text says: Why are my boobs so small and what are men thinking about them?
This would be my approach to turn Google into Wolfram Alpha :)
