Text used for search engine indexing. Hidden from the user's view and is considered spam for this reason. Search engines frown upon the use of hidden text to increase keyword density.
Hidden text is the art of hiding text on the webpage to influence search engine rankings. They can be hidden by making the text the same colour as the webpage or using a CSS div and hiding the text in there.
used to increase artificially a web page's keyword density for a given word or phrase. For example, white text on white background, or very very small print. Search engines can detect and may penalize.
Text which is invisible to the human eye because it is the same color as the background.
Text that is visible to the search engines but is invisible to humans. It is primarily used for the purpose of including extra keywords in the page without distorting the aesthetics of the page. Using hidden text is a violation of search engine guidelines and can be grounds for banning.
Usually involves hiding text behind images,using text the same colour as the background or noscript tags. The first two are easily detectable as spam and should be avoided. Google does not rate noscript text now and serves limited use - it is intended for printing in a browser if a user is not capable of running Java.
Text that is visible to the search engine spiders but not to site visitors. Used to add extra keywords in the page without actually adding content to a site. Most search engines will penalize Web sites which use hidden text.
It is text the is invisible on a web page because it is the same color as the background. You can be penalized by search engines by doing this.
Using hidden text is the act of using the same color text on the same color background. This is never recommended and can be considered spamming by many search engines.
Text that is visible to search engines but not to the visitors by using a text the same color as the background color. Most search engines and Google will penalize for the usage of hidden text.
Unethical methods of boosting search results by hiding text
Most common way is to make the text and background the same color, so that readers don't see text.Hidden text is hughe amount of text filled with key words or key phrases and is easily detectable.
Text on a web page that is not visible to the end user, but is visible to search engine spiders. Hidden text is considered SPAM by most major search engines.
Text that can't be seen normally in a browser.
making your text the same color as your background rendering it invisible to your visitors. Your text appears to not be there but the search engines and human search engine editors can see it anyway.
Putting text in the same color as a Web page's background color. This technique was once effective at gaining high search positions, but now results in search engines penalizing pages using it.
Text on a Web page that is either the same as, or very similar to, the background color. A search engine spider can detect hidden text when analyzing the Web page, but a user cannot. All search engines consider this a form of spamdexing and actively check for this, rendering it ineffective.
Hidden Text was a practice used in the mid-90s whereby keywords and phrases would be placed on a web page in the same color as the background of the page. These goal was to increase search engine rankings. This technique is considered illegal by the search engines today and is a deceptive practice and should be avoided.
Text on a web page designed to be visible to spiders but not to human visitors . The aim is to load the page with keywords without deterring from the visitor's experience. Of the various techniques of hiding text, the most common is to set the text color to exactly or nearly the background color. Most search engines can now detect hidden text and consider it a form of spamdexing . Pages that contain hidden text are penalized or even de-listed . For more on hidden text and the dangers of using hidden text, please refer to the Search Engine Yearbook .
The concept is that text is included on page that can be read and, therefore, indexed by search engines but cannot be seen by visitors.
Using the same color characters on the same color background. Your site can be penalized or banned from the search engine's index for using this technique.
and Hidden Links - Using a text font that is the same (or nearly the same) color as the background color, rendering the text or link invisible or very difficult to read. The same effect can also be achieved by using various HTML tricks. Hidden text and hidden links are often used to artificially increase a web page's keyword density for a keyword or keyphrase and/or to artificially boost the link popularity of other pages on your site(s). The use of hidden text and hidden links is frowned upon by Google and most other search engines. Using them will most likely result in your web page(s) incurring a penalty by the search engines.
Text on web page that is hidden to human visitors but seen by search engines using the same background color for text color, this is considered Spam by search engines which cloud lead your websites to become banned.
Often used as a spam tactic, hidden text is visible to search engine spiders but not visible to human visitors. This is sometimes because the text has been set the same colour as the background, because multiple TITLE tags have been used or because the text is an HTML comment. Many search engines can now detect the use of hidden text, and often remove offending pages.
Text on a web page designed to be visible to spiders but not to human visitors Using a text font that is the same (or nearly the same) color as the background color, rendering the text or link invisible or very difficult to read. The same effect can also be achieved by using various HTML tricks.
Text that is visible to the search engines but is invisible to humans. It is mainly accomplished by using text in the same color as the background color of the page. It is primarily used for the purpose of including extra keywords in the page without distorting the aesthetics of the page. This practice is considered spam by all major search engines since it is used to artificially increase keyword density.
A practice of publishing "invisible" text on a Web page in an effort to manipulate search engine rankings and results. Many search engines can detect hidden text and resulting rankings suffer as a result.
Text that is visible to the search engines but is invisible to humans. It is mainly accomplished by using text in the same color as the background color of the page. It is primarily used for the purpose of including extra keywords in the page without distorting the aesthetics of the page. Most search engines penalize web sites which use such hidden text.
Text which is visible to search engines but not to human visitors.
Text on a web page that is not visible to end users in a browser at any time but is visible to search engine spiders. Considered spam by all the major search engines if used to artificially increase keyword density. Techniques include formatting keywords the same color as the background or entering alt tags in transparent images.
Putting text in the same color as a Web page's background color. Once effective at gaining high search positions, but now the search engines penalize pages using this technique.
This is a way of increasing keyword targeting by hiding text in the body of the website so that users cannot see it but the search engine spiders can. The most frequent method used is to use a precise match in color between the keywords and the background, but it is a risky tactic as it is classed as spamdexing and the spiders are now much more likely to view it for what it is. (See also Keywords, Spamdexing and Spider).
This is invisible text found on a website that a human user can't see but the serach engines are able torecognize. This is a technique that website owners use to stuff their site with certain keywords so they will be ranked higher on those terms.
The deceptive process of filling Web pages with keywords that are not visible to visitors but will still be indexed by search engines to help achieve higher rankings.
Hidden text is computer text that is displayed in such a way as to not be easily readable. Hidden text is most commonly achieved by setting the font color to be the same as the background color, rendering the text invisible unless the user highlights it. There is an example of some hidden text on the next line.