: Can I randomly change the page title for users while showing search engines a static title? Let's say I wanted to make a website or series of pages where the title (or at least what appears

@Odierno851

Posted in: #Javascript #Seo #Title

Let's say I wanted to make a website or series of pages where the title (or at least what appears on your browser's tab) alternates randomly each time it's loaded - just for giggles. I have a bank of random messages, for example:


(1) Donald Trump's spicy meme farm.

(2) Are you feeling it now Mr. Krabs?

(3) Put some respeck on the name.


Is there any way I can spoof a page's title during "real" browsing sessions without overwriting the actual title that a crawler would use for SEO?

I have tried JavaScript, since I assume most bots aren't going to support it. (Or has Google started doing that now?)

I've been loading a new message into an array and outputting it like so -

document.title = "This is the new page title.";




It seems to do what I want it to, but I have no idea what the ramifications will be as I go.

My inspiration was the question How to dynamically change a web page's title? and basically I'm trying to figure out if the top answer will hold true long-term and I won't be shooting myself in the foot if I launched a site like that.

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