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Is "visibility:hidden" OK for text content of a video landing page?

         

webstar08

9:22 am on Mar 24, 2010 (gmt 0)

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We've created a landing page that consists only of a video and an opt-in form (lead generation landing page).

Since that page has almost no real text content, we planned to add a transcription of the video as a hidden text i.e. using the css style "visibility:hidden"
but the big question is, of course, wouldn't Google penalize that?

netmeg

3:54 pm on Mar 24, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I don't know that they'd penalize it on the AdWords side (not sure what the position is on hidden text - it's never come up for me) but it certainly could hurt you in the organics. You're not supposed to show search engines different content than you show users. If that's part of the webmaster guidelines (no time to look it up just now) I'd not advise it.