hidden text penality

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I was using a lot of hidden text in my web page to rank well in Google as most of my competitors were doing the same ant to get a good keyword density but in last 10 days I have lost all my ranking and I think this is because of Google's latest update. My webpage Already have quality content but as this is a online shopping site so words like "Price" , "sale" and "offers" have more density than actual targeted keywords.

So please tell me , Now what to do ? How to regain the reputation and get out of the penalty and how to manage the keyword density problem ?
#search engine optimization #hidden #penality #text
  • You shouldnt be using hidden text. Did your other competitors get hit as well?
    Do you have alot of backlinks with the same anchor text?
    do you have lot of backlinks on unrelated websites?
    Do you have any social on your sites? facebook, twitter,


    Forget about conversions and ranking for now.

    Pick a keyword that you want to rank for.
    Put yourself in the shoes of that person searching for that keyword (Cheap small blue widgets)
    What would I want to see on a website?
    - I am price comparison small blue widgets
    - I would also like to see review of different small blue widgets
    - I would want to see a well layed out website where I can easily see the price differences of the different small blue widgets as well as their star rating and reviews for each one.

    Once the user clicks on your site, you want he/she to find exactly what they want and quickly.
  • Hidden text is a big no no and has been for years... I would definitely remove all hidden text immediately.
  • As rules of google algo if you are using hidden text in webpage this is Black-Hat SEO.so your site can be panalize .Don't use blackhat seo.
  • uf, why didn't you change your strategy earlier? Now you have to suffer for a long time...
  • You should've never used hidden text.
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    • You should not use hidden text because it's black hat seo technique Google has penalized your website not you should remove it from website and start work according to white hat seo technique.
  • Invisible Textual content is a black hat technique for that your website got target. Remove all the hidden written text from your website that will help you to get back high position in internet google search results.
  • Banned
    Not all hidden text is bl@ck hat.

    Plenty of legit reasons to use hidden text on Tabs, Sliders, Navigation.
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    • Just because they are legit reasons, does that mean it's not black hat? Only till they get penalized with the next algo update...

      Update:
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  • Google innounced the word "hidden text penalty" in its update and they are hitting websites very hard which are doing this black hat technique
    remove all the hidden anchored text and try to convince Google again.
  • Hidden text was usable 10 years ago maybe
  • Old black hat thing. I'm surprised you lasted this long. Yukon is right but that text is not specifically hidden just behind other things etc... If you hid it by making it the same color as the background or something then you are in trouble. Just write more proper content and build out your site with it.
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    hidden text penality

    I was using a lot of hidden text in my web page to rank well in Google as most of my competitors were doing the same ant to get a good keyword density but in last 10 days I have lost all my ranking and I think this is because of Google's latest update. My webpage Already have quality content but as this is a online shopping site so words like "Price" , "sale" and "offers" have more density than actual targeted keywords. So please tell me , Now what to do ? How to regain the reputation and get out of the penalty and how to manage the keyword density problem ?