A New SEO technique

Hiding text is not allowed SEO method. Google hates it and website can be deindexed.
Google for "google hide text" to see explanation about this on Google Webmaster Central (Sorry I can't post live link to this article as I am new and post count is less than 15).

Steer well clear of that method, it's black hat and will ultimately lead to your sites being wiped from google results.

Hidden text is not new. Scummy tactics like that have been around for years.

Why on earth you think that this is SEO is beyond me.

BLACK HAT, it will hurt you. Also, when you use no script it is also not good as it is used mainly for programming.

Please do not use this techniques, Google will ban your site in few days.

Disclaimer: I do not address this method.

Question: IF the website is ranking top 3 for over a year, thats a signal Google missed that technique.

If you can share the url in a PM, do so. Love to check the rankings along last months.

Fernando

Ancient hat, pink hat or no hat, I love to see that URL and check *why* the top rankings. Google has some glitches and maybe this is another one. Who knows. Probably is just a good site. Probably not.

A reminder: You guys always check G .com BUT G .pt (and probably other local G's) have some really funny flaws every now and then, and I can tell you the portuguese version *moves* differently than the .com. The rules are not exactly the same.

Maybe they update later (months later) or maybe they use us as a (previous) test zone.

This is the million dollar question I can't answer, but been tracking data to try to solve the puzzle.

Anyways, OP, send me a PM to check that link.

Hideen text is an old black SEO technique you want to stay away of.

search engine spiders can't really see hidden texts - that's what I read anyway. You'll only get penalties if someone goes to the search engines and reports you. Not sure if it's really the case.

I'm pretty new to SEO and IM - only started in 2007 and I know a lot of guys here have been doing it far longer than I have. But what I noticed is that people put too much emphasis on tricking the search engines to get to page one or #1 without thinking about why we're actually optimizing the sites for. At the end of the day, it's not about the search engines - it's the people who visit your site and how they will respond to your website. I know of some people who has his sites in the top 5 for several keywords but is not getting any business from it - I think it's probably because of his crappy looking site. So I'd have to agree with PhillipSEO (no we're not related lol) that the way to go is to create quality content that your visitors and customers (not just search engine) would want to read - which will help them decide to buy/opt in/tell a friend/sign up etc

4morereferrals - lol on all the hats

just add a little more effort to and do it right and get the same SEO Effects

The noscript tag is an alternative when JavaScript is disabled. So, it is not black-hat per se. You need to show something to your visitors if they have JavaScript disabled. So, as long as you don't place an excessive number of keyword phrases within those tags, you will be OK.

That method is a bad idea, and will hurt you many times more than it will help... I would never recommend it to anyone. And if your doing using a inline set of code your even more screwed....

Google always know that what we are doing ?

If Google catches on they may end up in trouble, I wouldn't play with fire.

I think its part of black hat SEO nothing else.

On page SEO with hidden text? May fool altavista.

Lol to ancient hat.

But please don't fall into the trap that Google is all seeing and all powerful. It's not.

When it comes to Google, page content is part of the equation, but keywords of your inbound links and the content of the pages they are on are much more so.

We've all seen examples where a page ranks for a term that doesn't have anything to do with the content of the page.

Nevertheless, for low competition long tial words, page content alone can be enough to rank you.

If you want to hide content, I recommend using layers. Very simple orivide you have a handle on basic CSS.

create a layer and fill it with your optimized content. Give it a z-index 0

Now create another layer and used background-color to fill it with white (or wahtever color your backgournd is) and put your real contentin there. Give it a z-index higher than 0.

Viola - hidden content.

You people have not even seen the site and the context in which the NOSCRIPT element was being used... only a made up, likely exagerated, facsimile... yet you scream blackhat without absolutely ANY proof. Get a grip...

The NOSCRIPT element is part of the HTML standard. It is part of the HTML standard for a reason. There are times when it is 100% whitehat to use it. You can't declare it blackhat without first knowing the context in which it was used.

As long as what is in the NOSCRIPT element accurately reflects the content that the preceeding SCRIPT element contains, it's perfectly legitmate.

This is useful when using things like JavaScript or Flash to implement visual elements and text on the page... Not everyone has JavaScript enabled or a Flash plugin installed... It's situations like this that it makes total sense to use NOSCRIPT to render an equivalent HTML text version of the visual element.

Thing is: no link to check rankings means we can't really tell IF it still works or not.

If the site uses that technique for some years and keeps top rankings for a *good* keyword... something is wrong.

Again my disclaimer: I do not address this method.

But I do love to check the site and archives to see how long he's doing it.

Just don't do it. You can rank other ways that won't put you in jeopardy of being knocked off the map and losing all of your work. This is one of the top ways people get de-indexed.