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In a discussion on the Google Webmaster forum Googler John Mueller warns for the use of the noscript element. This element can be used in combination with Javascript in order to display information when the browser does not support scripting or it is disabled by the user.
John indicates that the use of the noscript tag suspect happens with search engines because the element in the past has been often abused by spammers.
- Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or Flash to users.
- Serving different content to search engines than to users.
In 2006 it was said by a representative of Google, a noscript element that links will be followed up with Google but no further value attributes will be added.
Via: seroundtable.com .
