I have Product based website thus i need to show the product at home page and internal page but for search engine, i also want to put content. So i found the way that with Button Enabled, means someone click on button text will display, so this is called hidden text.. this will be useful for my site. thanks
I guess I don't understand why you don't want to have a regularly visible text description of the products you are selling. I would think that would be good for both SEO and for potential customers. You want to be careful about using hidden text. Google doesn't like text that is on your site for search engines, but not for human visitors. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66353 If you follow the link, it goes into more detail about hidden links.
It might work for a couple of weeks or even a month, but once Google actually takes a good look at your website it'll get a nice penalty slap. Hidden text is one black-hat technique that has long been exposed, found out, and now penalized by Google.
button enable, why not write the contents onto the images on your webpages. I think maybe you used a button named details... when user click it, it shows some contents?
I don't think there's anything wrong with partially hidden content. Many websites that use ajax today have content hidden in various divs for one reason or another and its not blackhat. The blackhat techniques that are used are text that aren't really readable by people and are blatantly written for SE's. This is different though - many large sites hide parts of the text for various reasons.
What he is talking about is having a button or a text link that will show the text once the viewer clicks on it. This is not hiding text from the search engines at all. Hiding text can be done using the same color font as the background, using CSS to move the text off of the page or use a blank image to cover up your text using CSS. An example I found would be here. http://www.directstartv.com/directv_programming/directv_compare_packages.html Click on there different boxes they have, it will only show the text related to the specific package you want information on. Is that what you are thinking of doing for your site?
I too have a question about this. I have lots of content that ends up cluttering the page. It would be nice to have the title of the section displayed with a "+" button that they can click to expand the section. Not everyone is trying to seo a blog where it's acceptable to have long content. Lets say you have a site selling computers and you have all the options for the computer listed but want a way for people to be able to find out the details of each part. For example you might have 1 gig of ram listed but would like to have the details available in case they would like them. I too would like to know about this as it's used everywhere. Ever look at a customized google page with rss feeds? It too has "+" buttons so you can expand and collapse stories. What I want to know is if the search engine will see everything and if sends a red flag. The last thing I want is to get penalized for trying to making things easier to read for customers.
pardon me for intruding, but I'm seeking info on those having experince with DirectStartTv and this is the only mention i find --- your thoughts please
If it's done properly using a simple 'JS' Java Script code that will hide/show the description, it will work. It won't be considered hidden text as it wont be visible to search engines afterall Done that so many times in different developments of mine.. However, using this way won't benefit your website pages of the hidden content.