Scrolling Marquee Tag

[sem4u]

Has anyone used a scrolling marquee tag on a website? Google seems to be picking the text up on one I have seen.

[awall19]

I have used one on one particular site just to be obnoxious. generally I think they are a bad call though.

[Ferre]

Originally Posted by awall19

I have used one on one particular site just to be obnoxious. generally I think they are a bad call though.

A bad call? can you explain why? personally I think it really has no influence at all on how Google ranks your site when there is some scrolling text on it.

[Rivux]

Not a bad call from Googles perspective but a bad call from a site design perspective. Marquee tag makes your site look like it was built for geocities in 1998. It's a rather unprofessional tag and just screams 'newbie'.

[Ferre]

Originally Posted by Rivux

Not a bad call from Googles perspective but a bad call from a site design perspective. Marquee tag makes your site look like it was built for geocities in 1998. It's a rather unprofessional tag and just screams 'newbie'.

I can agree on that one. :wink:

[awall19]

Originally Posted by Ferre

I can agree on that one. :wink:

thats where I was coming from

[NFFC]

>Has anyone used a scrolling marquee tag on a website?

Not until this year, sometimes that adsense spider needs a little help ;)

[thebassman]

I find them so annoying... I would highly recommend against them... I agree with Rivux about the 1998 Geocities look... hehe.

[SN3]

Originally Posted by thebassman

I find them so annoying... I would highly recommend against them... I agree with Rivux about the 1998 Geocities look... hehe.

Ditto. They look horrible.

[NFFC]

Ist rule of SEO [imho] is never say never.

With a bit of CSS those marquee's can look very nice.

Try this cobbled together/copied thing.

<marquee id="adsense" direction=up width=75 height=125 style="background-color:white;border:1px solid black">Adsense food here...</marquee><br/>
<a href="javascript:adsense.start()">Start</a> | <a href="javascript:adsense.stop()">Stop</a>

<script>
if (document.all)
adsense.stop()
</script>

[awall19]

NFFC

welcome to the forums!!!

glad to see ya here

[NFFC]

Thank you Mr Book :)

A combination of your posts and Mr Scott's...

"I don't do SEO for new clients and I don't even like doing it for my old clients."

...did it for me.

So, why do you hate the marquee?

[John Scott]

Welcome to v7n, NFFC.

[GoldDust]

Originally Posted by NFFC

Ist rule of SEO [imho] is never say never.

With a bit of CSS those marquee's can look very nice.

Try this cobbled together/copied thing.

<marquee id="adsense" direction=up width=75 height=125 style="background-color:white;border:1px solid black">Adsense food here...</marquee><br/>
<a href="javascript:adsense.start()">Start</a> | <a href="javascript:adsense.stop()">Stop</a>

<script>
if (document.all)
adsense.stop()
</script>

Nice little piece of code you posted there NFFC :wink:

[awall19]

Originally Posted by NFFC

So, why do you hate the marquee?

most sites using that particular element use it in an exceptionally ugly way and look really really bad

[hulkster]

marquee is up there with the BLINK tag ... ;-)

[awall19]

Originally Posted by hulkster

marquee is up there with the BLINK tag ... ;-)

blinking marquee is the key

[hulkster]

I will "confess" to using the marquee tag on my Christmas Webcam - IE is actually smart enough to handle the "slide" behavior which only does it once and leaves the strong on the left hand side - Netscape/Firefox just keep looping it.

[seonewbee]

Hulkster, where did you get the scripts to get the information about a visitor? Like it a lot.

[NFFC]

Thanks Hulkster, I thought I had referral info turned off, you reminded me to check again!