Coloring spam - search engine optimization

A good idea for search engine optimization is using the right colors, and not using the same colors as text.

Does this include extreems?
color:rgb(12,25,12);
background:rgb(127,150,126);
background:rgb(127,190,126);

They are all "green."

One is a near black text like green and the other is kind of olive and the other more like lime...severly dulled lime.

Kind of like. If I print screen and grayscale it it turns out fine. Is this a process similar to what something like google would do to check if the colors could indicate the page as spam?

Or should I make color rgb(0,0,0)?

Also what about my background image, it's 20x100 repeated vertically it's the same color as the backgrounds.

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I'm no SEO expert, but why would a search engine pay any attention to CSS?

I mean CSS is just styles and all search engines care about is the text on a page.

By the way, hex colors, like #000, have better cross-browser support than rgb().

As far as search engines are concerned, CSS is only used for formatting and possibly layout purposes, and won't have anything to do with your placement in the results. The only thing to remember is to make sure that your CSS is kept in an external file to make sure that everything is uniform over your whole site, and to cut down the file size for downloads.

I'd also suggest using hex values (like #00F45A) for the colours instead of the rgb method that you've used there. It'll give you exactly the sme result, but will save a few characters and is usually more "friendly" to browsers.

Hmm I was reading a tutorial on "SEO" and they mentioned that search engines like google take colors values and check it for spam. I don't know where I read google specifically, maybe I didn't.

wait a sec if it's an external css and google and the like use "lynx browsers" for their crawlers then wouldnt that mean they can't check external css...DUH

http://www.submit-it.com/subopt.htm?tipq=7&sell_page=1

Thanks for the information.

lynx browsers = text-based browsers
TGFL: thank god for laziness


I'm redoign all of my colors, I don't know why I thought rgb was better...

Thanks again