hiding text from spider

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by oninuva, Feb 1, 2009.

  1. #1
    How would you hide text from a spider? Because on my forums; www.ModdingFiles.com/forum notice the top there is a navigation bar, now that is becoming the description on google and thats not good;

    Now hiding text from a search engine wouldn't be a good idea so any way around this?
     
    oninuva, Feb 1, 2009 IP
  2. revoD

    revoD Peon

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    Odd that it's adding that as your description... do you have content in your meta description tag? That should take precedence over any content, or in your case your nav.
     
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  3. MikeHayes

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    Hi,

    I don't see the problem in either IE7 of FF.

    Mike
     
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  4. shailendra

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    Add some content in your meta description. Hiding content from spider is not a good choice mate
     
    shailendra, Feb 1, 2009 IP
  5. oninuva

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    Well there is a meta-description but it is still adding the navigation into the description and not the meta, how do I fix that? I am using vBulletin
     
    oninuva, Feb 2, 2009 IP
  6. My220x

    My220x Member

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    It's not doing it for me, when I find your site in the Google search engine I get "Modding Files - Forever changing the gaming community."
     
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  7. A.G

    A.G Well-Known Member

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    you can hide text using css style code which will hide the text from visitor eyes but will not hide it from spider I guess
     
    A.G, Feb 2, 2009 IP
  8. oninuva

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    well for each the threads and posts they don't..
     
    oninuva, Feb 3, 2009 IP