Comments on: How To Easily Hide Client-side Content from Google Web/Mobile Preview Bot

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:56:42 +0000

Thanks for the trick,
it seemed to work right away, and saved me a lot of trouble figuring it out another way.

Thanks

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:54:50 +0000

Thanks for a quick response, Richard. I’ll share this with my production department right away. Have a nice day

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:29:11 +0000

Yep – still works.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:28:06 +0000

Been searching for a trick like this. I’ve noticed that this post is a bit old, does it still work?

By: Jesper Damtoft

Jesper Damtoft — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:16:29 +0000

Thanks for the great trick Richard, will come in handy.

By: Rory

Rory — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:40:48 +0000

This is the exact code I was looking for! I’ve discovered that when you work in web design you have to run a lot of reports, and making sure that they don’t interfere with Google’s preview results is absolutely key.

By: Jon Tiffany

Jon Tiffany — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:20:02 +0000

Missing the regular updates, but a great post as always. I’m going to look into the previews on my sites and check they are showing correctly. This is going to be really important for getting the best click through rates.

By: Sanovnik

Sanovnik — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:11:41 +0000

Is it possible to go even further? To use preview as a “teaser”, which says “visit the real page for the good stuff”.
That is worth a few thoughts, I say.

By: denise

denise — Thu, 05 May 2011 03:49:27 +0000

where are you at at the moment?

your updates are missed?

just subscribed to see if you have any new links for really really good search engines apart from the usual..

is there any more coming on stream in the future?

kind regards

denise

By: Jesper Jørgensen

Jesper Jørgensen — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:10:48 +0000

Hi Richard

We run a lot of surveys for our clients, and we also noticed that the popups show on some of the previews. Your trick is really neat, so I will hurry to start the first implementation

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:16:01 +0000

Well Richard, long time no hear, the preview is not something i would of even thought of re google previewing a script etc, what about making the preview show what you want?
What do you make of big Gs current so called shake up aimed at content farms and the like, i always assummed that the search algo had some type of content quality weighting, yet it seems that the borderline gibberish that is the world of auto content is effecting the results.