: How do search engines handle ? On my site, I have something like the following: <noscript> <p> <strong>JavaScript is currently disabled.</strong>

@Si4351233

Googler, JohnMu, said in a thread, "the problems with noscript is that it's been abused quite a bit by spammers, so search engines might treat it with some suspicion."

John Mueller is a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google

Full article www.seroundtable.com/archives/022411.html

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@Speyer207

I have seen this issue from my last website, which google used <noscript> content as page search result snippet.

in my case, my website is ASP.Net,
so I resolved the issue, by adding id & runat=server attributes to <noscript> tag,
and then in page_load function of MasterPage code section I controlled the visibility of this tag depending on Request.Browser.Crawler state.

Request.Browser.Crawler (boolean) in asp.net will identify whether the user browser is search engine web crawler or not. (of course all crawler engines are not defined in asp.net by default, and you should manually control them)

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@Kevin317

That is valid page content and the search engines will see and index it. It is even possible for it to show up as your page's description in the search results page. But there are other places that Google prefers to get a page's description from include the meta description tag, ODP description, and relative content from the page. So if that content is what is showing in your page description in the search engines you have larger SEO issues at play.

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