We generally “encode” content using rot13, which means that it’s hidden from search engines but anyone who’s actually reading the article can read it.
If there ends up being a lot of encoding here then some sort of built-in support where you click the marked-up text and it decodes for you would be nice. A lot like spoiler handling on other sites? But I don’t think it’s needed yet.
If you have to click a <button> and not an <a href=...> to make the text show up, and the text is stored encrypted of obfuscated until then, it will stay off (current) search engines because the crawlers won’t trigger it to show up.
I think it’s probably also more future proof: I expect search engines understanding rot13 (via AI integration) probably comes before crawlers clicking buttons.
If there ends up being a lot of encoding here then some sort of built-in support where you click the marked-up text and it decodes for you would be nice. A lot like spoiler handling on other sites? But I don’t think it’s needed yet.
Is that possible to do without the plaintext appearing in the HTML of the page?
*I’ve no idea how either websites or search engine indexing work
If you have to click a
<button>and not an<a href=...>to make the text show up, and the text is stored encrypted of obfuscated until then, it will stay off (current) search engines because the crawlers won’t trigger it to show up.I think it’s probably also more future proof: I expect search engines understanding rot13 (via AI integration) probably comes before crawlers clicking buttons.