Hidden Forms, Google Penalty?

  • Resolved TOBY39

    (@toby39)


    11 years ago

    We were just getting hammered on a number of sites with form spam and believe this is a great way to stop it. But since Honeypot is showing one thing to a human visitor and another to the bots, I’m wondering if anyone has had any issues with a Google penalty since it’s a form of cloaking – i.e. presenting something different to the bots vs. human visitors since the honeypot field is hidden using css.

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/contact-form-7-honeypot/

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  • Ryan

    (@daobydesign)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Google shouldn’t be blindly punishing sites for using CSS the way it’s intended to be used. If you are masking a bunch of keywords in elements set to be “visibility:hidden” or “display:none”, I can see that causing penalties, but I’ve never heard of Google penalizing sites for utilizing hidden elements carte blanche.

    jsnowbusiness

    (@jsnowbusiness)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Google shouldn’t be blindly punishing sites for using CSS the way it’s intended to be used. If you are masking a bunch of keywords in elements set to be “visibility:hidden” or “display:none”, I can see that causing penalties, but I’ve never heard of Google penalizing sites for utilizing hidden elements carte blanche.

    Hidden links and keywords are what google looks for, not forms.

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