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: Hide elements for Google I have some elements which I don't want Google to see. Usually repetitive content, e.g. header and sidebar. As Googlebot doesn't handle AJAX requests, I load these resources

@Ogunnowo487

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I have some elements which I don't want Google to see. Usually repetitive content, e.g. header and sidebar.

As Googlebot doesn't handle AJAX requests, I load these resources with AJAX and insert them into the DOM.

Does this cause any SEO problems?
Does Google even recognize this activity?

Regards.

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@Gretchen104

If you are able to use HTML5, then putting your header in a <header> tag and your sidebar in a <nav> tag may have an impact on how the content is indexed.
sixrevisions.com/content-strategy/what-potential-impact-can-html5-have-on-seo/

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@Pope3001725

That's silly. Common headers and sidebars are common and fine. This at best is useless, at worst is serving different content up to search engines than to users which is black hat SEO.

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