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Is HTML Code Ever Crawled by Search Engines?

by chris_87
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As the topic states, do search engines read source HTML for any given page? I am curious because many website building programs (dynamik, thesis, genesis, headway themes etc) have code specific to them within the HTML. It could be a potential footprint if so.

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#code #crawled #engines #html #search
  • Profile picture of the author CSmitty
    Yes, search engines will go through your html code and make judgements on your site based on the code it just crawled. Specific html elements will also make you more liked by the search engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by chris_87 View Post

    As the topic states, do search engines read source HTML for any given page? I am curious because many website building programs (dynamik, thesis, genesis, headway themes etc) have code specific to them within the HTML. It could be a potential footprint if so.

    Thanks
    Your misunderstanding how server side CMS short-codes work.
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    • Profile picture of the author chris_87
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Your misunderstanding how server side CMS short-codes work.
      Thanks. I take it google does not read the HTML code then.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by chris_87 View Post

        Thanks. I take it google does not read the HTML code then.
        Google only reads the source code on a live web page, the short codes your talking about are on the backend of a CMS (ex: Wordpress, etc...). Those short codes are mostly PHP which doesn't show on a live web page source code (HTML). PHP (short codes) is server side code.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Those themes have a lot of comments in the code that make them easily identifiable, it that is what you are worried about.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Of course Google reads the generated page HTML, but I guess nobody here is confused about that.

    WordPress themes are usually easy to identify from the HTML. People are lazy, and don't want to rename theme directories so if you take a look at the HTML source the theme name is usually just sitting there. Some themes are fairly minimal in their markup, but others have very easily identifiable structures and naming conventions. Compare StudioPress Genesis (sort-of stealthy) to iThemes Builder for example.

    Theme could be a part of a footprint, but the most popular ones are widely used. You'd need much more than theme to identify a network.
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    Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author pryidevsblog
    Google can see your HTML code that is the only reason you are write the Meta description and title and other on-page tactics.
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