Good spotting! Dr Jakob is using this trick of hidden text at the bottom of the page. I doubt he would ever get in trouble for it though as all he is doing is listing come common misspellings of his name.
Another thing to note is that he is using a CSS class to redefine how the text looks. This is a common but effective trick in search engine optimization. Most search engines give pages a boost when they use the horribly ugly <h1>Heading 1 Tag</h1>.
If you would like to get the boost that this <h1> Heading 1 Tag</h1> gives WITHOUT is looking so darn ugly put something like this in your CSS
Another very effective technique I often use to include a number of text links at the bottom of every page on your site link this
<a href="page1">Keywords for Page 1 </a> |
<a href="page2">Keywords for Page 2 </a> |
<a href="page3">Keywords for Page 3 </a> |
<a href="page4">Keywords for Page 4 </a> |
<a href="page5">Keywords for Page 5 </a>
These links become part of your site navigation just like the links at the top of your page that are often images. Search Engines LOVE keywords in text links.
Well first/. post here after lurking for 12 months or so.
Sure people hate adverts and popups and believe they have some god given right to try and stop with with doctored hosts files (ok my/etc/hosts is about 400K and I don't see many adverts), firewalls, ad busters and other things. Well technology is a funny thing and now the webmasters are beginning to fight back.
Two small time developers (that I know of) have created anti-advert blocking scripts www.antiadbuster.com and www.antiadblocker.com . What these scripts do is check to see if you are blocking adverts and if you are then they block you from viewing any content.
No Adverts = No Content.
I havn't yet placed this software on my highest trafficed site www.aarons-jokes.com but I intend to shortly. It is a matter of simple economics, if I am displaying up to 40,000 pages of content a day I have a big bandwidth bill that has to be paid. I provide visitors content on the condition that they view my adverts which pay the bills. In my opinion if you are viewing my site's content and using some technical solution to block the advertisments then you are STEALING my content.
I hope that a large number of smaller independant webmasters will start using these type anti-advert blocking software on their sites. When these cheap ass surfers start getting blocked from sites they are wanting to visit because they are blocking the adverts they might finially understand that unfortunately adverts are a necessiary evil in supporting websites.
It is not like us webmasters are getting fat from huge profits from these adverts. Most of us are bearly coverting costs.
"FreeBSD is my web server & desktop platform & it rocks, take note linux and M$ users the BSD family will be taking over the world soon."
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Good spotting! Dr Jakob is using this trick of hidden text at the bottom of the page. I doubt he would ever get in trouble for it though as all he is doing is listing come common misspellings of his name.
Another thing to note is that he is using a CSS class to redefine how the text looks. This is a common but effective trick in search engine optimization. Most search engines give pages a boost when they use the horribly ugly <h1>Heading 1 Tag</h1>.
If you would like to get the boost that this <h1> Heading 1 Tag</h1> gives WITHOUT is looking so darn ugly put something like this in your CSS
H1 {
color:#000000;
font-size:12pt;
font-family:helevetica
}
Another very effective technique I often use to include a number of text links at the bottom of every page on your site link this
<a href="page1">Keywords for Page 1 </a> |
<a href="page2">Keywords for Page 2 </a> |
<a href="page3">Keywords for Page 3 </a> |
<a href="page4">Keywords for Page 4 </a> |
<a href="page5">Keywords for Page 5 </a>
These links become part of your site navigation just like the links at the top of your page that are often images. Search Engines LOVE keywords in text links.
Well first /. post here after lurking for 12 months or so.
/etc/hosts is about 400K and I don't see many adverts), firewalls, ad busters and other things. Well technology is a funny thing and now the webmasters are beginning to fight back.
Sure people hate adverts and popups and believe they have some god given right to try and stop with with doctored hosts files (ok my
Two small time developers (that I know of) have created anti-advert blocking scripts www.antiadbuster.com and www.antiadblocker.com . What these scripts do is check to see if you are blocking adverts and if you are then they block you from viewing any content.
No Adverts = No Content.
I havn't yet placed this software on my highest trafficed site www.aarons-jokes.com but I intend to shortly. It is a matter of simple economics, if I am displaying up to 40,000 pages of content a day I have a big bandwidth bill that has to be paid. I provide visitors content on the condition that they view my adverts which pay the bills. In my opinion if you are viewing my site's content and using some technical solution to block the advertisments then you are STEALING my content.
I hope that a large number of smaller independant webmasters will start using these type anti-advert blocking software on their sites. When these cheap ass surfers start getting blocked from sites they are wanting to visit because they are blocking the adverts they might finially understand that unfortunately adverts are a necessiary evil in supporting websites.
It is not like us webmasters are getting fat from huge profits from these adverts. Most of us are bearly coverting costs.
"FreeBSD is my web server & desktop platform & it rocks, take note linux and M$ users the BSD family will be taking over the world soon."