Invisible text may be penalized Search Engine Guideline

Description

Search engines may penalize invisible text where text color is nearly identical to the background color.

Applicable standards

• Google
• Bing
• Yahoo

Change history

• 6.48 Mar 2023 Improved detection.
• 5.36 Jan 2020 Take X-Robots-Tag into account.
• 5.22 Jul 2016 Fixed false positive on print media.
• 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: SeoHiddenTextColor