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: Website Design; SEO Dilemma Okay so I designed a website for a restaurant and the design is aimed mostly to entice the viewer by using images of the restaurant's platters and foods. Not to

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Okay so I designed a website for a restaurant and the design is aimed mostly to entice the viewer by using images of the restaurant's platters and foods. Not to say that text is totally non-existent but the design makes it hard to have enough keywords. Most keywords are found in the ALT attribute of image tags and a couple of headers.

The reason as to why I am in this dilemma? I'm still new to web development and at the time I made the design, I didn't really know much about SEO. So I come here in search of help because I have an idea...

Would it be good practice to have hidden SPAN blocks that would help me fill with keywords?

For example a hidden SPAN would have text in bold to help with SEO. Of course, I will play it safe and not exploit this technique if it works. I have searched that this may be considered spamming by search engines and some companies are taking measures to prevent this.

Thanks in advance!

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@Lengel546

Are you sure you can't not use CSS styles for some headers? Maybe with background image? And add some real visible text as well? If you tweak the design a little? There must be some place in your design where you can add some body text and a header? At least in sub pages. Depending on competition that may be enough since a restaurant website is very local. I too would probably also prioritize on making an enticing design showing the restaurant or whatever.

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@Alves908

in my experience: DON'T DO IT. i've read in Google Page structure to not to using hidden span filled with keywords in your code. like other said, this is black SEO and you might as well consider your website banned from getting index.

I too have several case like this where my clients want a "candy" website full of graphic images. what i can advise to you is that make full use of your navigation link and SITEMAP and submit the sitemap in Google webmaster tool.

oh i hope in other page you have text to increase optimization of your page :)

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@Sarah324

That is the very definition of black hat SEO. You are serving up different content to the search engines for the explicit purpose of manipulating their rankings. It's a great way to get your pages and/or site banned. Don't do it. There are lots of legitimate ways to help your site's search rankings without having to resort to cheating.

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