Benefits of hidden text

[success1990]

We all know that hidden text or link is part of Black Hat SEO. But, Kindly tell me Does hidden link helps us in gaining good ranking in search engines.

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[ahsima]

When we say hidden link as black hat technique then certainly it will not help in ranking and rather it may to lead to penalizing of your website by search engines

[mesas]

the use of hidden text can allow a website owner to incorporate keywords that might not naturally fit into their copy, but may still be relevant to the website.

[aricajwalker]

Even though some within the webmaster community see the use of hidden text for SEO purposes as unethical, that does not mean that it is without potential benefits. For example, using hidden text allows web-site owners to include keywords within their web pages that otherwise would not fit with their template. This is important when there is minimal human-readable text on a web page due to the heavy use of images, flash, or other non-text parts within a template. Additionally, the use of hidden text can permit an online site owner to incorporate keywords that might not naturally fit in to their copy, but may still be relevant to the world wide web-site.
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[jeffreyrogers]

There is a main advantage to this: getting banned fast by search engines.
Hidden text is textual content which visitors cannot see, but which is still readable by the search engines.
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[sandeep]

Using hidden text in your website is Black hat SEO technique. It will not helps to increase your website rankings and also if you use this technique your website will penalized fast by search engines. So try to avoid this.

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[pawpoint]

Never use hidden text. Google is not stupid anymore.