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[luk75]

Hi , I could use some advice to hide some text on my homepage in a way that it is undetectable to visitors but visible to big G bots , you get what I mean .
Any useful tips ?

 

[chewba]

What you're looking for is called "Cloaking". Check the marketplace for cloakers.

 

[luk75]

What you're looking for is called "Cloaking". Check the marketplace for cloakers.

I had a look , cloakers have a thousand functions I would only need the one to hide text , can you recommend something that does this specifically ?
Thanks

 

[Wilson Grant Fisk]

There are so many ways to hide txt on a webpage, Google is aware of all of them.
The simplest way is to colour the text the same as the background.

 

[sageshark]

Hi , I could use some advice to hide some text on my homepage in a way that it is undetectable to visitors but visible to big G bots , you get what I mean .
Any useful tips ?

Way back in 2005 we used to use the same color of font as the background container to hide the text inside. This would make the text merge in the background and users will not see that but only search engine will see it. We used to insert the keywords in the page this way.

However this is a bad SEO practice and this technique was outdated year ago. Search engine may even punish a site doing such a thing now.

I am not sure if you want something like this, but if you want to do this, I would suggest you don't do it. Who knows if search engine does not like it and may punish your site.

 

[sageshark]

Hi , I could use some advice to hide some text on my homepage in a way that it is undetectable to visitors but visible to big G bots , you get what I mean .
Any useful tips ?

Another way is to add the text in a div and apply a class to it with property "display: none". Your visitors will not see that but search engine will crawl the text.

 

[luk75]

Way back in 2005 we used to use the same color of font as the background container to hide the text inside. This would make the text merge in the background and users will not see that but only search engine will see it. We used to insert the keywords in the page this way.

However this is a bad SEO practice and this technique was outdated year ago. Search engine may even punish a site doing such a thing now.

I am not sure if you want something like this, but if you want to do this, I would suggest you don't do it. Who knows if search engine does not like it and may punish your site.

I appreciate it very much , I knew this "technique" even I thought it was even older in any case by doing so I would suffer a penalty from the search engine , that is why I am looking for a method a little more "modern"

 

[sageshark]

I appreciate it very much , I knew this "technique" even I thought it was even older in any case by doing so I would suffer a penalty from the search engine , that is why I am looking for a method a little more "modern"

So you can try the another method of CSS I recalled just after replying to your post. It is very simple CSS trick and can hide the text from your visitors. Technically it is much safe and I think many sites do that too.