Submit pages to indexing by Google but censor the search terms in the page?

Question

I am creating a site with phone numbers of staff, if someone googles the phone number I want them to find this site. However, on the site, before logging in, the number is partially censored (eg. 123-456-****).

These numbers are read from an SQL database by PHP. So http://example.com/staff.php?user=23 would give user 23. And I want Google to index this page under that phone number or other given search material, but I don't want to explicitly state the uncensored phone number in the actual site. How can I go about doing this?

Answer 1

That's not possible, you can't rank in Google for a hidden term. That's called cloaking and you can get a penalty for that. If Google gets to read the phone number, visitors must also be able to.

Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. Cloaking is considered a violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines because it provides our users with different results than they expected.