Google indexing and caching hidden text? Shocking!

Wanted to share this "amazing" discovery with all the members of ADM! Google used dodge trucks tacoma wa

The 5th position is genepankeymotors.com. Click on the site, notice there is no body text "whatsoever". Most dealer sites use flash on their home page and have hardly any body text at all! I don't recommend this because in my experience "hidden text" (just to get keyword relevancy) used to get your website penalized or hurt you in seo! This new discovery defies this rule as this site being in the top 5 for this keyword phrase without any "visible" on page body text is proof enough!

Go back to google, see in the result description where it says "as well as the popular" for genepankeymotors.com!

Google has indexed and cached thier hidden text! The term "as well as the popular" is inside a hidden

So... don't quote me, but it looks like search engines may be scanning the actual code for body text and not just what text is acutally on the page! Please share any other results like this that you've noticed!

Tags: area, body, divs, hidden, text

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