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How to hide text from visitors only ?

by boosters
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I want to hide some text which visitors can't see and only the search engine can see those text. I read this shit news - https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/66353?hl=en and i am now wondering is there any other method to hide some text ?
#hide #text #visitors
  • Profile picture of the author trevord92
    Google and the other search engines don't like it when you present different results to them versus real users.

    This kind of spammy technique worked early on in the web but isn't something that's worked on a regular basis this century.

    And even on the offchance it works for a while, it won't be long before the algorithm detects something is amiss and then you'll likely get hit with a penalty and not show up in the results at all.

    Not worth the time and effort for the dubious short term gain.
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  • Profile picture of the author zeyfah
    using CSS is the easiest. but why bother? it will just make the site worse for Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan3
    cloaking or just make the text clear, but that's super easy to spot.....
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  • Profile picture of the author fpforum
    As others have mentioned, you could probably do this the easiest using CSS. However, hiding text is frowned on upon search engines and it's a quick way to get your site hit with a penalty. I'd stay away from hiding text unless it something where registered members can see it, but guests/unregistered members cannot.
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  • Profile picture of the author boosters
    I want to use this on blogspot only, so short term can also ok but it is ok right now to use it on ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Slade556
    As stated in the article you shared, doing this is seen as a violation of Google's guidelines and, might I add, a blackhat seo method which is definitely frowned upon.
    Why do you want to do this anyway? Isn't the whole point of having a website making it visible to readers?
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  • Profile picture of the author annewilliams123
    This is not a good SEO or it is against Google rules. You can block it by putting it in robots.txt.
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