Odd scenario / hide names from Google crawlers

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Odd scenario / hide names from Google crawlers

60 views Asked by thomas At 29 February 2024 at 12:55

My client has a blog and wants to hide all mentioned names from Google's crawlers. For this reason he wrote all personal names l.i.k.e t.h.i.s., seperating each letter with a dot. This approach seems to work, but as I am rebuilding his site right now I am looking for ways that still work, but look less shit and are readable. The dotted pattern is easily replaceable with regEx and I have no problem stripping the dots with PHP, but my question is, what should I replace them to?

I thought about tags l.i.k.e s.o, so the dots could be hidden via CSS but wouldn't those tags just be stripped by crawlers, leaving the names loud and clear?
What about leaving the dots in the source but stripping them by JS? Would crawlers see the result or the source?
Anything else I haven't thought about?

Thanks for hints and ideas!

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**Stephen Ostermiller** · Accepted Answer · 2024-02-29T16:21:41+00:00

Anything you write into the page from a JavaScript file that is blocked from crawling with robots.txt won't get indexed by search engines.

`file.html`

<!doctype html>
<html><head>
<script src=/write_name.js>
</head><body>
Your name is <div id=name1></div>
</body></html>

`write_name.js`

document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){
    document.getElementById('name1').innerText = "John Doe"
})

`robots.txt`

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /write_name.js

See Preventing robots from crawling specific part of a page

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Odd scenario / hide names from Google crawlers

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`file.html`

`write_name.js`

`robots.txt`

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