: Jumbled Up Text - how does it impact SEO? We have a website that contains company profile pages. Each page has information on a company, the information is all displayed as text to users

@Speyer207

Having lots of pages that make no sense to the search engines such as Google is not going to help and a problem you face is juice is leaked to those pages as well as diluting your authority on the domain as a whole.

Since these pages hold no value to search engines and the chances are they will never be ranked your best of using:


blocking search bots on these URLS.
using meta noindex, nofollow on the pages.
Using nofollow links internally to these pages, normally I'm against internal no-follows but if you have a page such a /users/ then no-following on the top level only will block juice being feed.


Now with this said if some to a lot of content is displayed on these pages then I would ignored the above and rather than using CSS/PHP to block the text and confusing the search engines I would use something like a div background element, this way Google will not factor it into the search results while giving people the idea of the blocked content.

Example HTML:

<div id="profile">
<div class="content">
<p>I am content that everyone can see</p>
</div>
<div class="hidden"> </div>
</div>


Example CSS:

.hidden {background:url("blur.png")


So every profile page would look the same but give the impression you need without factoring in random text:

blur www.bybe.net/downloads/blur.png

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