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Source Code Crawling

Google's older method of reading website source code directly to index content, which allowed hidden text tricks to work for SEO before modern rendering was adopted.

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"Years ago, Google used to crawl the internet by reading source code. It doesn't do that anymore. Back then, in the ha..."
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"Years ago, Google used to crawl the internet by reading source code. It doesn't do that anymore. Back then, in the halcyon days of Google reading source code, those tricks to hide content would in fact work."