Invisible words.what about hiding the words too?

[Absolutely]

I had the idea a few weeks ago about putting words related to my website's content on the page in a color that isn't visible-matching the area I'm going to put it in.

A search revealed it's not a new practice, and there was some talk about how SE powers that be will give you demerits if they find them. But using them a little to augment a lack of repetitions of those key words in your visible text was ok'd.

So now I'm thinking: what if I have a text box (or just text..)loaded with key words placed BEHIND an area that has a colored background..?

My question: Could a SE recognize the hidden (black fonts) words as they sit behind a picture etc on the page?

Or would moving them behind anything, effectively render them useless?

[Lyndsay]

Not a good idea. You can get not only penalized, but banned for trying to trick a search engine.

[harry_wales]

You will get banned.

But why on earth would you WANT to try to trick engines like this anyway? Why not just write some decent copy and include the keywords?

[Absolutely]

I'm not really relying on search engines anyway, and it was just a theoretical question. Most of my pages have enough key words.

I was moving something forward that was partially hidden behind something else and wondered IF a search engine would spot it at all, or if being hidden behind a pic or something would it be too invisible.

I'm new to this, so I don't even know how spiders crawl, probably over the HTML. So I guess it'd 'work'. Work good enough to get oneself banned!

I wish I was relying on SE, but I'm in a niche area sort of, and aiming it at a foreign country's population as well.