This should be an easy one for someone:
Will the <noscript> element cause the HTML page to serve only the content within the <noscript> tag itself to google crawlers and hide all the rest of my static content causing it so not to be indexed?
Thanks!
No. The crawlers will see all your content, both within the <noscript> element and everywhere else.
Crawlers behave a lot like browsers with JavaScript turned off - they see all the static content plus the <noscript> content, but not anything JavaScript-dependent.
The whole HTML file is served in response to a GET request. Google should honour robots.txt and not spider directories marked with that.
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On our page we have a <noscript> inside the <body> at top and via javascript we define the title and meta description of the page, as we want it to be dynamic.
However, on google search results the page appears with a random title of the page content and the description shows with the <noscript> content which is basically a message saying to activate javascript.
How can this be resolved? Is a static meta description required?
Thanks in advance for any input.
I have added in the bottom of my html like this (just like how stackoverflow has it implemented):
<noscript>This site works best with Javascript is enabled</noscript>
but in one of my pages that has very little text, the text "Javascript is disabled" appears in Google search.
Is there a way to tell Google to avoid indexing this part? Or is there a better alternative instead of using <noscript> tag?
The issue is that Google often won't render Javascript. It can - but it often won't.
You either need to present a pre-rendered page or provide it with a meta description that accurately describes the content. Look up tags and how Google uses them to embellish it's search listings.
Other options like or can encourage Google from deviating from the provided description. However, a pre-rendered page for it to scrape is always more reliable.
I have a dynamic page, where the contents and title will change based on the parameters in the URL. I want the same to be done for meta tag description. As I don't have a sound knowledge of SEO, I don't know whether it will be valid or not.
Say suppose URL contains word "test"
I will do,
if("test" is present)
{
<title>test</test>
<meta decription="test"/>
}
else
{
<title>test1</test>
<meta decription="test1"/>
}
Can I do this? Does giving two meta tag descriptions for same page work.
It is best practice to have different, on the page content based values of the title element and the meta description for each web page. It is not forbidden by the the HTML5 specification to have multiple <meta name="description" content="YOUR DESCRIPTION"> elements but I would guess that search engines process only the first appearance of the element. So my recommendation would be use one <meta name="description" content="YOUR DESCRIPTION"> element for each page.
As long as you code it server-side (eg in PHP) when the page is generated rather than client-side (javascript) after the page has loaded, then it will be fine. That's how most CMS systems work already.
Done server-side, only one of the description tags will actually appear in the code Google see.
Done client-side, it is likely that they will see no description at all as I don't think many search engines render javascript.
Please suggest me, By writing <meta name="robots" content="nofollow">in the submaster page will include the links of master page or not? Thanks.
example.com/master-page/sub-master-page
AND
example.com/master-page
These both are two different URLs therefore no-following links on one page will not effect the links on the other page.
You will have to include the no-follow meta tags on both the pages separately to make external links no-follow on both the pages:
<meta name="robots" content="nofollow"/>
Every page identified by a unique URL is unique and crawlers index each URL separately. Considering this fact and logic, your meta tag on sub page will not affect the parent page.
I don't want some of divs on my page to be followed by Google because they contain duplicate content from other websites, is this possible that I prevent those divs to be 'no-followed'?
I have seen this:
Methods for preventing search engines from indexing irrelevant content on a page
but its suggesting JavaScript for this purpose and I can't use JS in my case, also that question is from 2009, I hope things are bit changed now?
If you really do not want use javascript for this, the only way I'm sure will stop Google for index some content of your page is using iframe + robots noindex/nofollow.
Instead of use a div, create a normal iframe, in a way that it appears that is not a iframe.
To page that is target of iframe, add metatag robots <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
Keep in mind that it will probably be interpreted as if it were adversing, so there will be some penalty, but this penalty may be lower than copying significant amount of content.