Comments on: A Match Made in Heaven: CSS & SEO http://www.seo.com/blog/css-and-seo/ Search Engine Optimization SEO & Internet Marketing Company Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:42:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Another Adam http://www.seo.com/blog/css-and-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-17030 Another Adam Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:26:06 +0000 http://www.seo.com/?p=1403#comment-17030 Thanks for the response. I tend to agree with you in general, and especially on your textual image point. Thanks for the response. I tend to agree with you in general, and especially on your textual image point.

]]> By: David Scoville http://www.seo.com/blog/css-and-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-17029 David Scoville Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:00:58 +0000 http://www.seo.com/?p=1403#comment-17029 Yes, Adam - I have yet to find hard evidence about CSS organization making a major difference on search engine rankings. However, you'll notice that I focused most of my post on using CSS to<strong> create textual images</strong>. It is becoming easier, especially with the use of <a href="http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/" rel="nofollow">SIFR</a>, to use <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-use-text/" rel="nofollow">selectable/indexable text</a> in images, no matter how graphically advanced the image may be. My text above which reads "search engine spiders," has a background shadow and gradient, and yet it is still indexable. A heading tag is far more important than an image only with an alt attribute. I must admit, (I was a website developer long before I became a Search Engine Optimist) that I am always partial to clean and organized code. It cuts down expensive maintenance time and makes SE on-site optimization much more efficient. As a matter of professionalism, websites should meet <a href="http://www.w3.org/" rel="nofollow">w3</a> standards anyway. Yes, Adam – I have yet to find hard evidence about CSS organization making a major difference on search engine rankings. However, you’ll notice that I focused most of my post on using CSS to create textual images. It is becoming easier, especially with the use of SIFR, to use selectable/indexable text in images, no matter how graphically advanced the image may be. My text above which reads “search engine spiders,” has a background shadow and gradient, and yet it is still indexable. A heading tag is far more important than an image only with an alt attribute.

I must admit, (I was a website developer long before I became a Search Engine Optimist) that I am always partial to clean and organized code. It cuts down expensive maintenance time and makes SE on-site optimization much more efficient. As a matter of professionalism, websites should meet w3 standards anyway.

]]> By: Another Adam http://www.seo.com/blog/css-and-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-17019 Another Adam Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:11:09 +0000 http://www.seo.com/?p=1403#comment-17019 I totally buy the reason to move to CSS for purely IT reasons (separation of presentation, logic and design is good etc etc), but does it really have that much of an impact on SEO? I read that a bunch, but wonder who has any hard data on that. Seems like the search engines are pretty good at pulling out the text among the HTML objects by now. So I wonder. (again - css is still a good move just for more disciplined development). I totally buy the reason to move to CSS for purely IT reasons (separation of presentation, logic and design is good etc etc), but does it really have that much of an impact on SEO? I read that a bunch, but wonder who has any hard data on that. Seems like the search engines are pretty good at pulling out the text among the HTML objects by now. So I wonder. (again – css is still a good move just for more disciplined development).

]]> By: Agent SEO http://www.seo.com/blog/css-and-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-16847 Agent SEO Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:19:16 +0000 http://www.seo.com/?p=1403#comment-16847 Nice. Well it looks great. Thanks for the info! Nice. Well it looks great. Thanks for the info!

]]> By: David Scoville http://www.seo.com/blog/css-and-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-16805 David Scoville Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:05:41 +0000 http://www.seo.com/?p=1403#comment-16805 Hi AgentSEO, the code is fairly simple. I used a background image for the shadow and set the font to Lucida Sans Unicode, which is a web safe font. Notice that I used a heading tag as well. Hi AgentSEO, the code is fairly simple. I used a background image for the shadow and set the font to Lucida Sans Unicode, which is a web safe font. Notice that I used a heading tag as well.

]]> By: Agent SEO http://www.seo.com/blog/css-and-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-16802 Agent SEO Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:24:47 +0000 http://www.seo.com/?p=1403#comment-16802 Nice tips. What CSS code did you use to make the first 'Search Engine Spider' image appear as highlightable text? Nice tips. What CSS code did you use to make the first ‘Search Engine Spider’ image appear as highlightable text?

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