I'm getting ready to launch PlusLocker [video=youtube;ganrJeYcb8w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ganrJeYcb8w[/video] It's a viral Google +1 Plugin for Wordpress. You can use it to reveal "hidden" content to viewers, in exchange for them pushing your google plus one button. It's a big niche, and it's only going to get bigger as google pushes the plus one button results into their algorithms. This can be an easy sell for anyone in the SEO niche. http://pluslocker.com/ http://pluslocker.com/affiliates-partners
Would this not have negative effects on the SEO of a website? This plugins hides the text which is not a good thing according to Google.
Actually it doesn't hide it from google, only from the viewer. If you were to look at the source code, you'd see it there. Plus it's not all of the text on the page. Only the portion you want to entice people with in order to get them to push the plus one - which will actually have a huge positive effect on your SEO.
Yes, but Google hates people hiding text or making it "invisible" by coloring it and so on. Anyways I like the product, it has many uses, especially for hiding download links and so on. Good luck with it. I would love to review it, but I don't feel like spending money today.
Google doesn't hate all hidden text. They do hate text that is colored the same as the background, and they do hate it if you're trying to be deceptive by hiding keywords/links etc. But believe me, Google has shown me nothing but love for the pages I've put this on so far. Several of my experiments have made it to the top of Google in less than an hour for the keywords I was experimenting with. They weren't all real popular searches, but I've done enough experiments like this to know that the plugin definitely helped.
Well, by hiding content from a human but showing it to the googlebots your site can be de-indexed. But this is most likely only if you are doing it for the purpose of tricking the bots. I also have a question about the whole +1 idea. Will Google really approve of sites using their +1 button to unlock content. I mean, it's a way of manipulating the results. The purpose of the +1 button is to share content that you like, not content that you need to like in order to unlock things.
I guess we'll find out soon enough. So far it's working quite well as far as ranking goes. However, that's not even half of it's real benefit. If you use this right, a lot of the traffic comes from the backlinking created here. Because every time someone pushes the plus one button, it leaves a link to your site in that person's google plus one account for everyone to see.
I'm using something similar to this, it requires a visitor to either like or tweet something to get access to the "hidden content", but that's social media traffic - this is definitelly something to look into considering that Google will probably increase the effect of +1
I think that as soon as they open up Business pages, there's going to be another huge wave of people joining google plus.
By the way, the gravity is almost at 4 already. Several affiliates made sales yesterday. Congratulations if one of these is you...