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Update!! Update!!!! - 29th May, 2006 - Hear this, hear this!!!
See below - indented black italics.....all that was written 3rd November, 2004 - pretty harmless.... I thought.....
But No!! This is a heinous crime!! Be warned..... never ever do what I suggested in any of your web-pages!!
Why??
Because, Google doesn't want you to. If you do it (as I did) eventually Google will detect it... and will then remove all of your sites from its index. Hiding text is against the rules!! Except that Google don't tell you!! I only found out about it after weeks of trying to get my sites re-included in the Google index and failing
I've removed all the white on white from my sites now - but I still have to email Google and ask them to re-include me - and here I come to one of those "BIG ENTERPRISE' versus "little man" situations, and I hope Google will play fair.....
When I did my "white on white - clever dodge" - I did it because I thought it was clever - maybe helpful to some people in some situations - and couldn't imagine why it should be dis-allowed - I still cannot. I'd like my sites re-included into Google's Index, but if they want me to grovel/apologise - that is a step too far. Google - what is the "problem" with hiding text??
And - yes.... I've even made the white on white text in the example below - silver on white, so there can be no doubt that I'm now obeying Google's rules! Let's see how long it takes to get re-included......
You know sometimes you want to put something up on a web-page, but you don't want everybody to be able to see/read it??
Here's a very insecure, but very easy way of doing it....
I'll put how much I spent on dinner last night in between these square brackets...[$57.50]....... there - can you see how much I spent??
Now put your cursor on the left bracket, left click - hold it down and drag across to the right bracket.... got it??
Just add what you don't want others to read into your web-page with the foreground font colour - the same as the background font colour.
Clever hey?? But not all that secure!!