: Does a banner at the top of your website, which only shows when Javascript isn't running, hurt your SEO? I'm working on a web-app which has a nice, AngularJS based, front-end for when javascript

@Tiffany637

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I'm working on a web-app which has a nice, AngularJS based, front-end for when javascript is enabled and then falls back to a completely Javascript free, 100% server rendered version for when it isn't, with an identical URL schema.

One of the things I do is have a banner at the top of the page stating:


Website Name Here works best on a modern browser with Javascript enabled


I then use Angular's one-time binding feature to hide it. ie, once AngularJS, kicks in, the banner goes away.

I don't want to use the noscript tag, because I am also delivering a mostly JS free version of the site to bots/web crawlers and users on older browsers (based on user agent, I sometimes don't render the scripts to load the AngularJS and related javascript), so this notification will be missed if soembody visits on IE8, for example, if the notification is in a noscript tag.

Will this hurt my SEO? And could this warning potentially show up in Google/Bing/etc search results for items my site may rank otherwise highly on?

Or is this a common practice, and will any decent web crawler take this kind of notification into account?

Thanks

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