Hiding text from search engines?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by mystic, Oct 28, 2005.

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    Is there any way to hide certain text from search engines?

    For example my site www.splaytech.com the first few text search engines see is "the best electronics deals anywhere view cart gift reminder faq privacy policy" etc. Well can i somehow hide all that text so that search engines see the rest of the content and put more emphasis on those rather then something like "faq" just because its near the top.
     
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  2. INV

    INV Peon

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    Well your website is in tables, however they dont seem to resize to fit the resolution. Therefore you can put the FAQ and such links in <DIV> </DIV> on Absolute and place it in those cordinates while moving the acctual code to a different place such as the bottom.
     
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    balkanboy Banned

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    Put your description of site on first place(code view) and after that use css to place it to desired place.
     
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    You can do the typical blackhat cloaking thing to hide text or encode it or use javascript to write the text. Javascript might be better for what you want.
     
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  5. S4M4

    S4M4 Well-Known Member

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    CSS and '<DIV></DIV>' is the way to go, it won't hide the text but you will be able to move the code to the bottom of your html page while the text still appears at the same place in the browser.
    Sure you can opt for some blackhat tricks to completly hide the text but that's not recommendable.
     
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  6. mystic

    mystic Active Member

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    I dont' use css and dont' no how to, any ways to do it with normal html?

    I will soon learn css but dont' really have the time right now
     
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    S4M4 Well-Known Member

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    None that I know of, sorry
     
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    Firstly you do not want to get into the habbit of hiding text from search engines. It does not do you any favours.

    Secondly, you need to give your web documents a point of reference by giving the correct <DOCTYPE> and character type etc. Unless you do this the website is not really a website that is correctly structured and therefore gives no parrameters as to the way in which it should be interpreted. So right now your meta tags are ignored as just additional bumf at the top of a generic document.

    In fact if you chuck your website through the w3c validator you get the following response

    In the UK if you buy a new house it has to be guarenteed for ten years and also be compliant with building regulations. If the house is not fit for human inhabitance then you can really say it does not conform to being called a house. It has not made the grade really.

    The same can be said for websites that do not validate. Your website is not a website if it does not meet the minimum standard for todays browsers.

    So there you go! Validate the thing and you will find that you can put whatever text in your description and it will come up under your title in searches. Choose not to validate it and you discount the hard work you have put in already and future traffic.

    Good luck
     
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    Live CSS hiding examples:
    blackhat-seo.com/2005/hide-with-css/
     
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