ht_noscript

[Dan Cole]

I had a very interesting...maybe frustrating might be more accurate experience with my Responsive Version noscript head tag....I installed it thinking it can't hurt but boy was I wrong. Unfortunately for some reason, unknown to me, Google picked up the noscript text from most of my product pages...several thousand of them and used that as the page descriptions...at that point I didn't have a mega tag module installed....the result was a quick drop in visitor activity...on a brighter I note I rank well for the terms browser and javascript, for whatever that is worth.   (w00t)   Anyone else see this or am I just the lucky one?

 

Needless to say after seeing the problem I uninstalled the ht_noscript module and things are starting to return to normal....the lesson here, for me at least, is think twice about using a noscript message.  My research on this indicated that about 2% have javascript disable these days and the speculation is that most of those are likely bots.

 

Dan 

[TaylorR]

Hi Dan, it is a good thing that you removed ht_noscript module as is has some genuine disadvantages-

1. It only works if the browser does not support JavaScript or if it is disabled. The content of the <noscript> tag will be invisible if the Javascript is blocked by a firewall.

2. User agents with very poor Javascript support will still ignore <noscript> content.

3. While most browsers support <noscript> in the head, it is technically invalid X(HTML) so your pages might not validate.

Good Luck.

[Dan Cole]

@@TaylorR  Thanks Rebecca....sounds like there are lots of reasons not to use it but not any/many reasons for doing so.

 

Dan