White text, white background - think Google has banned me!?!

Message requesting advice on wheather I have been "banned" from Google

[mwpmorris]

I'm not too sure if my site has suddenly been "banned" by Google.

It was listed last week, but over this weekend it has disappeared from the index. I think there might be one problem with it:

I use white text with a white background, although to make the text visible I use red layout tables to frame the text.

I believe Google may think that I'm using "hidden text". Is there any way to remedy this? I really don't want to change my text colour!

[edited by: mack at 11:01 am (utc) on Jan. 16, 2006]
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[mack]

Sadly it is not un-common for sites to suddenly disappear from Google. Usually when this happens the site will re-appear within a couple of weeks.

There are also sites that fall out of the index because of things the webmaster has done that are in breach of the search engines rules.

I don't believe what you have done would be enough to get your site banned. Because the text was within a table it was not using the same colour of text as your background. I know this doesn't sound very helpful but if I where you I would wait a few weeks before making any changes.

Mack.

[mwpmorris]

Well, to be safe I've removed all basic foormatting from the webpage and replaced it with a reference to a CSS, which turns all the text white. I've heard that Google probably doesn't look at CSS......

I'll keep an eye on Google, hopefully it'll come back on soon.

[sandpetra]

Just leave it and wait and see waht happens after the upcoming Google PR update.