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Does Commented HTML Code Get Spidered?
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I have a change, perhaps temporary, to my web store that I will be making. I am wondering if the code that I will comment out () gets spidered?
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Hi Larry, that was a great question. This is why I love SEOMoz.org, there is always something to learn. I had never thought seriously about this question before, as I web developer I just figured it if I commented out html I didn't have to worry about it being crawled. After reviewing the responses I can see there may be a tad more to it then that.
Good question, good responses.
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There is a possibility that Google will crawl a link in comments, it's happened before with comments in Javascript. However, it will not have any impact at all from an SEO perspective.
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It means the content between comment tags won't get spidered.
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough on my previous comment.
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Does that mean the content between comment tags get spidered?
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Crawlers ignore comment tags. They do not have any SEO impact.
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