White text on white site header: does it help?

for more target keywords in the pages

[shape]

Hello guys,

I want to re-design my web-site's header.

I am wondering is it possible (or does it make any sense) to use in the header white text on white background. So there are will be more keywords.

I have some graph icon but I want to put a competitive "widget" keyword rifgt in the site header. So this keyword would be the first a bot indexes.

Anybody tried it?

Thank you!

[mack]

Goes clearly against the rules of the search engine and may leave you with a banned site.

As to weather it works or not, it used to, but the search engines are a lot smarter now and able to pick this sort of thing up. I would not recommend it.

Mack.

[decaff]

not a good idea...hidden text...SPAM
take the text you want to target and create actual, usable web pages that benefit your visitor...don't approach content (keywords) from the perspective of 'tricking' the search engines or 'pumping up keyword density' .... usability first...then let the search engines quantify your site..

[send2paul]

Is this what "they" refer to as "Black Hat SEO"?

[leadegroot]

If its such a good key word, why don't you work it into the title?

[harleyx]

It would be better to use an external CSS file, and put your <h1>keywords</h1> at the top of your site, and use div positioning to position the header on top of your keywords.

That way

A) search engines don't pick up on that, and

B) it's a legitimate use because if anyone views your page who has images turned off they still get a text header

C) <h1> has far more value than alt text on images.

I've been doing things that way for about 6 months on a couple sites that get crawled daily and the sites do great in the engines.

[benevolent001]

you are your self inviting google penality

[shape]

Thank you very much guys (especially Harleyx). I see I won't do what I planned to do by ignorance.

Good luck!