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Do search engine crawlers (aka spiders) read text that has been commented out in HTML?

April 26, 2017AKA Computers crawlers design internet Programming read search engine spiders

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Do search engine crawlers (aka spiders) read text that has been commented out in HTML?

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Text within comment tags is ignored by browsers and search engine spiders. You can check this for yourself by inserting a unique sentence on a page as a comment, then when the page has been indexed search for the sentence in quotes like this “unique sentence here”. You will not find it and it is not difficult to understand why the search engines ignore it.