White text on white background

How will Google react

[Jane_B]

Hello I'm under pressure to adapt the home page of a whisky site to make it acceptable to legal requirements in US ie it needs to carry a box for reader in insert date of birth, there can be no or very little text, no links through the site. European law is not so stringent so homepage more SE targeted with only a Yes / No choice about being over legal drinking age on a pop-up box. A colleague has suggested that we design a page which complies with US law but includes invisible text so that when the non-US reader clicks on Yes (the European response) the white text changes colour and is no longer invisible and we are still on the homepage. As we get a lot of traffic from Google currently I'm concerned how Google will react to this idea. Comments and suggestions would be welcome.

[jackofalltrades]

It may be considered to be hidden text. Im not sure though.

Personally, if im in doubt i dont do it.

There must be another way to achieve compliance?

Perhaps having a "select your country" option and then taking the user to the appropriate page?

Or having a seperate US site altogether?

JOAT

[Jane_B]

Hi Joat Thanks for quick reply.
"select your country option" would be home page with the country page number two. Google would be unlikely to do much with top page as no content therefore would it go deeper to index pages 2 onwards?

[jackofalltrades]

yeh the big G should go all the way through your site.

Perhaps you could still have some content on your homepage? Company info, general marketing slogans, etc? I dont know how that would be done with relation to the US regulations though.

JOAT