September 18, 201213 yr Hi all, we have a lot of text on a page and we have added jquery to a button (not a link) to toggle the text on click, will this be thought of as hidden text. Thank you
September 18, 201213 yr Nope. Google is smart enough to understand when text is being hidden to try and gain an SEO advantage. Because Google doesn't activate javascript, it will see every bit of html between the <body> and </body> tag. So you're fine
September 18, 201213 yr Nope. Google is smart enough to understand when text is being hidden to try and gain an SEO advantage. Because Google doesn't activate javascript, it will see every bit of html between the <body> and </body> tag. So you're fine +1 That is what I was going to write. The thing Google does check is some of your CSS, for instance white text on white background (does see if you have a background image with colour etc). Google is really clever on how it finds these things. Edited September 18, 201213 yr by hostmedia
September 26, 201213 yr No google is stupid and wont detect hidden text most of the time. http://www.portable.gr/ http://www.pdatech.gr/ these sites although are being reported for years are always first at results even there isnt relevant text because they have hidden text. Google wont care.
January 8, 201313 yr Hidden txt is the part of Black hat SEO and it is highly avoidable while making your website SEO friendly.Because as per google algorithms sites having hidden txt could be penalized by search engine.
January 9, 201313 yr Hii ELITE, Nowadays, Google is very shrewd and it will not thought your page text as hidden text. So be all right. Edited January 9, 201313 yr by somendra
January 10, 201313 yr Doesn't it depend how it is hidden? Use javascript to hide the text, no problem. No accessibility issues, no issues for robots. Use javascript to reveal text you have hidden with css: problem. Bad for accessibility, bad for robots. Don't do that.
January 10, 201313 yr Addendum; you should be more concerned about accessibility for real users than Google. If you take care of real users, Google will also be fine and in fact will appreciate that you are building for real users first. Build for accessibility.
February 13, 201313 yr The hidden links are not those that are present on the webpage to be viewed but still they are always set in an image file and can be seen through by using hyperlink. When the image gets clicked by someone it moves to some other webpage. In such a case the Google search results of that website gets hampered.
February 28, 201313 yr Be cautious with hidden text. It can be "Black Hat SEO" in terms of using it as an opportunity to spam a page with lots of keywords. Avoid this. However, I have a number of websites in which there will be an item of information that includes an image, title and opening paragraph. Following the opening paragraph, I'll then have a 'Read More' hyperlink (or something to that effect), which when linked reveals additional copy that carries on from the opening paragraph. These links usefully use jQuery to trigger the animation. I've heard theories that search engines browse without the use of JavaScript, and also that they ignore any copy which has the same colour as the background, or that is set to be hidden via CSS. I'm not sure if there is any truth in these theories, but just to cover myself in case there is, I ensure there is CSS in place for if the user (or search engine) has javascript disabled. I recommend this be done primarily for your users, and hey it might have SEO benefit too. Who knows!
March 4, 201313 yr No, if at all you have written the jquery as a string of text directly to the web page document, google wont identify the hidden text.
April 4, 201313 yr These are the text, made hidden by setting the font color of the text same as the background color of the page and It renders the text invisible unless user highlights it.
May 8, 201313 yr Hidden Text is a SEO spam tactic to hide contextual html text from human visitors to a webpage, however making it available to search engines to spider the text.
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