XF 1.3 Spoiler vs Indexation

[Daniel-SP]

Is there any relation between hidding a content into a spoiler and idexating it into web search sites ?

I mean, If I put a content inside spoiler its going to be indexed into google as any other part of the content that is outside the spoiler ?

Thanks

 

[Chris D]

Yes it will.

It is only hidden with JavaScript or a very basic CSS tweak if JS is disabled.

Either way, bots have full visibility of it.

 

[DRaver]

The question is: Is that spoiler not cloaking and a violation of the Google webmaster guidelines?!
This could mean a disaster for your site.

 

[Mike]

Cloaking is showing different things to a search engine than what you show users (coming from that search engine).

 

[DRaver]

Cloaking is showing different things to a search engine than what you show users

Right. The bot see the text an the user see the button. That are different things.
So I ask a Google engineer about the problem. Can this hurt my site?
And the and the answer was Google like: YES and NO

If the major text content of a page "hidden" in this way this not good for your site.
Be Careful.
Are you running it, user-friendly than it is ok.

I think everyone should assess the risk for themselves.

 

[Chris D]

The use of a spoiler type system really doesn't constitute cloaking:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en

 

[Newt]

Are XF conditional statements/usergroup protected content seen as cloaking?

 

[Chris D]

If you're talking about things like:

<xen:if is="!{xen:helper ismemberof, 1, 2, 3, 4}">
      Do not show this
</xen:if>

Then, no. XF conditional statements are compiled as PHP code so the effects of that code are server side meaning if something is hidden inside a conditional such as the one above, then Google can't see any trace of that happening at all.

 

[Newt]

Awesome thanks a lot!