Having Tons of Trouble Hiding Blog Site Name…HELP

someone said:
“You don’t want to use CSS to hide a <div>. It’s considered cloaking (or something like that) and can harm your search engine ranking.

I really don’t think that Search engines are going to penalize you that much for doing this. If you are hiding just your blog name, so “wpnewnoob” or whatever you blog name is, that’s fine. Cloaking is frowned upon when you hide tons of keywords.

Having said that, to hide that div, you will need to edit the css. This is also done in the appearance > editor — but this time you will need to edit the stylesheet.

it says to “copy and paste the content” copy and paste what content? do i have to copy the info from page source and delete it all the other string of words from the header.php? or ? am i just stupid or are these instructions unclear?

This means copy and paste the content that is in the header.php and edit what you want to take out.

Do be careful though.. editing these files through the editor is quite tricky and make sure you have your FTP info on hand and have made a backup.

im still having a problem. i went to “header.php”
https://www.blog.web6.org/add-logo-to-twenty-ten-wordpress/
^ this website instructs to copy and paste the contents from my header.php into a text editor. i did this. step#8 then instructs for me to look for a specific code & delete it. this specific code they tell me to delete does not exist. the code in my header.php looks completely different from theirs. perhaps this is because im using the blaskan theme and they are using twenty10

im going to re-state my problem:

i have the blaskan theme and i want to hide my site name without compromising SEO. i dont want to do cloaking of any kind

can anyone help?
thanks

the site name div for your theme has the ID ‘#site-name’ you should be able to replace the text with a logo by uploading the logo file to your theme’s images directory and editing the stylesheet to set the logo image as the background for that div, sizing the div to the size of the image (on some themes it is a good idea to make the image size equivalent to the original size of the text being replaced) and hiding the text using an SEO-friendly way

for example – something like this

#site-name {
background: url(images/logo.png) no-repeat;
height: 100px;
width: 300px;
text-indent: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}

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i need help understanding your instructions can you do more of a step by step?

the size of my header/logo image is 1119 x 160.

upload the photo to my theme’s image directory okay got that.

i went into the stylesheet (style.css) in my theme’s appearance>>editor

i searched for “#site-name” ive copied and pasted below…what specific texts in this chain of codes would i replace? i dont see anywhere for me to set background uRL or height? also i want my header logo image to be centered.

the space where the site title resides is on the left side of the screen and very small….

i need a lot of help understanding what you just said thank you.

below is the chain of codes i got from the stylesheet regarding “#site-name”

#site-name {
	color: #000;
	font-family: 'LeagueGothic', 'Arial Narrow', Impact, sans-serif;
	font-size: 72px;
	font-weight: normal;
	line-height: 1;
  margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	word-wrap: break-word;
	width: 100%;
}

#site-name a {
	color: #000;
	text-decoration: none;
	text-transform: uppercase;
}

.sans-serif #site-name {
	font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;
	font-weight: bold;
	letter-spacing: -3px;
}

@media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {
	.sans-serif #site-name {
		letter-spacing: -1px;
	}
}

.sans-serif #site-name a {
	text-transform: none;
}

#header-message a {
  color: #666;
}

@media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {

	#site-name {
		font-size: 40px;
		line-height: 44px;
	}

	#header-message {
		font-size: 13px;
	}

}

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