Penalty for tiny text 

Claim: Links or keywords that are in 8 point text (Font Size 1) will be ignored or penalized as "Spam."

Status: Very Dubious

Numerous "experts" caution against putting links or keywords in 8 point text, which they call "tiny text." This seems to be a very dubious proposition. I have seen newspapers that link to articles with 8 point text. Whole pages are made in 8 or 9 point text.

Eight point text is perfectly visible at reasonable distances even to people with like myself who do not have good eyesight.

I have built the popularity of sections of Web sites using repeated links in 8 point text and it seems to work, both in terms of improved positioning for keywords and in bringing more visitors to the pages. What, for example does a search engine supposedly do with text that is tagged <FONT SIZE = "2"> but is also tagged with an 8 point or even a 6 point style tag? It might look different in different browsers, and the discrepancy can be due to perfectly innocent coding errors or editor peculiarities.

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