Googlebot Can See Your CSS

• Posted by B Jones on January 4th, 2007 - Comment on this Post »

Looks like Google is actually getting smarter. Ekstreme, the creator of the Socializer reported on his blog that while looking through his log files, he came across this row:

66.249.72.52 - - [24/Oct/2006:17:17:35 -0500] “GET /global/x.css HTTP/1.1″ 200 8382 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”

Hopefully this will improve the relevancy of Google’s search results for pages that rely heavily on CSS. It will also negate the benefits of doing things like making text in a header tag (h1) appear as 11 point size, or using CSS to hide text.

See the full article here.

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