How to Hide some text from Search Engines?

[seowisdom]

Ok, firstly, let me make it clear this is not a spam/black-hat question.

I'm creating some good, keyphrase optimized pages. But I also want to include articles, or blocks of text which are relevant to the topic. However, these blocks of text totally screw the keyphrase density I'm trying to achieve.

So I need a way to show those blocks of text to humans, but make them invisible to se's. I know turning them into graphics would work, but there's too many pages to make this long tedious process feasible. I don't think 'frames' would work either.

So I guess the only solution would be some kinda 'on the fly' conversion into graphic (the blocks of text are brought into the page by an include statement. Or maybe there's a Tag to make the se's ignore that block of text?

Any suggestions are welcome.

[Marketing Guy]

Could you call the content in a frameset and block all the non SEO via robots.txt?

Or you could just fire up the SEO content on other pages and redirect to the real content.

[bhartzer]

I need a way to show those blocks of text to humans

Create two different versions of the page. When a bot visits your site feed them one version of the page. When a human visits the page, feed them another version of the page.

I had a situation recently where a lot of people were copying the text on one of my sites and putting it on their own site. I simply made a screen capture of the text and fed a version of the page that included the text in images--when the bots come they're fed the page with the text (same text--bots get text, humans get images). I worked very well for copyright infringers--I was getting tired of filling out DMCA forms and contacting my lawyer to send out cease and desist letters.

[seowisdom]

frameset is a possible option I may explore further. Graphic creation isn't feasible unless it could be done 'on the fly' - and I'm guessing the ip cloaking delivery of different pages might not look good to se's, even if i did know how to do it!

No reason to cloak in this case, as I want humans to read the test, but se's to ignore it - that result could be achieved by simply turing text into graphic on each page - but can't be done across '000s of pages

[a1call]

Hi seowisdom,
One way would be to have the text in question in an iframe with scrolling off. Then you could block the robots with robots tag from the page within the iframe. the human visitors would not notice a difference