Opt-in Form as Hidden Text - what do you think?

[seoperad]

Hi All,

I have at least 2 website that have opt-in form that isn't visible all the time (cookie related). Also, the thank you message will appear (obviously) only after signing in.

Here how it looks like:

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What do you think? It may penalize my website or do you find it legit?

[DSM_UK]

Hi,

As the hidden text does not contain any of your keywords, I would be surprised if any search engines had a problem with the content in such a markup.

If that content was keyword heavy and hidden from view then you would be likely to incur scrutiny from the search engines.

Kind Regards

Jimmy

[Alick300]

Hi Sahar,

As far as I know crawler doesn't submit form and crawler wouldn't find the page that comes after submission. No it won't penalize your site.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

[seoperad]

Hi Alice,

This form and code are on every single page, including the homepage

Do you still think it's not problematic?

When I check the cached version (text only) I can see it as part of the overall text

[seoperad]

Anybody?

[DSM_UK]

Hi Sharar,

It is hard to say definitively what the Search Engines will make of this text, as it is consistent between pages, they will likely class it as template content, rather than page content, but it will still be assessed as something.

To be on the safe side, is it possible to have this content only populate the

via javascript? I am assuming the Class or style on thatchanges so it appears, so when doing that, you could put the text in rather than just changing it's visibility?

However, doing this will take those words out of your word count, so I would recommend upping the text content on at least your most important pages, (if not all pages) to compensate for this.

Kind Regards

Jimmy

[Paddy_Moogan]

Hi Shahar,

Thanks for the question.

As the other guys have said, it's hard to predict how the search engines will react to hidden content. In this case though, I highly doubt that this form would cause a penalty. You're not hiding this content with the intent of manipulation or anything like that and if a Googler were to look at this, they'd see that you're not to hide anything bad.

I hope that helps!

Paddy