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I suspect there will always be a way to hide the text in a way that a search engine won't be able to detect. You can do this without applying any properties dir
by IgorPartola 11y ago
I suspect there will always be a way to hide the text in a way that a search engine won't be able to detect. You can do this without applying any properties directly to the element containing text (raise other elements above it), hide it with JavaScript, or any number of such techniques.
- rezamoaiandin 11y agoI believe Google is moving towards graphical understanding of the text as well and it should be able to render the pages and see what is going on the page... those days will soon be over and technical excellency in SEO will talk.
- IgorPartola 11y agoWhat if you use custom blank fonts? Or simply detect the User Agent and serve a different CSS file?
- leni536 11y agoOr detect the user agent and simply serve different content? I'm pretty sure that Google penalties this though.
- lloyddobbler 11y agoYep. Here you go: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355 https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355 Here's the full "Don't do this sh!t" article from Google: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769#quality_guidelines https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769#quality_g...
- nulluk 11y agoI think its known Google can masquerade as a "normal" visitor if it suspects you of cloaking (non identifying UA string and coming from a non disclosed google crawl IP) https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en I think they also use this to notify you in webmastertools when/if your site is hacked and is doing it to avoid detection by the normal user.