Font Size

[beasscr]

Hey All,

I read somewhere that font size 7 tells the search engines that it is a very important key word and so they will place great weight on it.

I know that font size matters however, is it true that font size 7 will tell SE's to put greater weight on it?

And I also read that hiding it under the top frame is a very good design trick because the words in size 7 are quite ugly and deserve to be hidden.

My question to that is...isn't this considered spam?

Any would would be appreciated!

Beas

[agerhart]

My first inclination would be that yes, this would be spam and you would get penalized for this if you were caught.

I have never heard of any extra weight being put on the Size 7 font, but you should wait for one of the experts to give you a definite answer.

[Brett_Tabke]

Mostly they like large headings near the top of the page. If you get too many words on a page in large print - they throw it all out.

[agerhart]

Brett,

Don't theyn usually consider it spam if they notice that the text is too small?

I remember hearing this and sice have shyed away from using small text on my pages.

[Brett_Tabke]

re: text to small.

I don't know how they could do that anymore Agerhart. Font size one is used everywhere (like this page) these days. If there is a problem with it being readable, that is a browser problem, not a page author problem. The days of too small text are long gone.

[agerhart]

thanks for clearing that up Brett

[beasscr]

Thanks guys for you input. I still have another question... if you hide it under the top frame is it still considered spam? I would think yes since you are "hiding" it, but I would like someone else's opinion.

Thanks for your help.

[rcjordan]

>I would think yes

One person's spam is another's tried-and-true technique, so you're asking for a subjective call. To answer another way, I think that the search engine police would view it as spam.

[beasscr]

That's my feeling also. Thanks rcjordan.