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June 23, 2005

Hidden Links

SEO Tips[SEO Tips] Image links are a standard way of linking Web pages, and they're not a problem. As long as you don't go making transparent images into links, or teeny-tiny graphical links, you should be fine and dandy.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

Rankmagic.com[Rankmagic.com] Internet Marketing and SEO Blog from Rank Magic: In her presentation at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in NYC Shari Thurow of Grantastic Designs claims this to be her favorite quote from Google: “Webmasters who spend their energies upholding the spirit of the basic principles listed above will provide a much better user experience and subsequently enjoy better ranking than those who spend their time looking for loopholes they can exploit.” [Google Webmaster Guidelines]

Cre8pc.comhttp://www.cre8pc.com [Cre8pc.com] Usability, SEO and Web Design:      "There's nothing the blogosphere loves more than angry mob justice, and I probably benefitted from tapping into a bit of angry mob antipathy towards the SEO industry. Though many, perhaps even most, people in the SEO industry behave ethically, the reality is that much of the SEO industry has treated the weblog medium with an attitude ranging from crass opportunism or exploitation to downright abuse, in the form of comment spam, referral spam, and fake, content-free blogs.

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Posted at June 23, 2005 08:03 PM

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