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Can you pollute their data with hidden elements, or do they only scrape visible stuff?
by mkl95 3y ago
Can you pollute their data with hidden elements, or do they only scrape visible stuff?
- jeffbee 3y agoIf Google thinks a site is serving different content to googlebot vs. real users, it will stop returning that site on the SERP, because that is a malware distribution technique, among other reasons.
- mkl95 3y agoWhat if you serve the same site? Does googlebot know that some text has the same color as the background?
- jeffbee 3y agoI don't know, that's not my game and I never worked on crawl or index, but I imagine they have that handled since invisible keyword spam at the bottom of the page was already a universal spammer technique by 1997.