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    Will Google read my page title and H1?

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    • Hughescov
      Hughescov last edited by

      Dim strTitle : strTitle = "The Title Of My Page"

      <title>Company name - <%=strTitle%></title>

      <%=strTitle%>

      Will Google be able to read this? When I view source the relevant information is in the tags but I'm wondering if Google hates this or not?

      Cheers!

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      • Highland
        Highland last edited by

        I assume this is ASP or .NET. When your page is rendered, it will appear as a normal HTML. Google doesn't hate HTML.

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        • William.Lau
          William.Lau last edited by

          I am not 100% sure but I don't believe Google can read this as its not HTML. I could be wrong but it might just be best to have the h1 tags in text.

          If you are not 100% sure, you can use WMT and get a crawler view of the page in question. This will show you what the bot sees and if it can read the your H1.

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          • irvingw
            irvingw last edited by

            Yes, Google sees the rendered code. Otherwise a billion sites out there would be screwed. Most title tag content for example is dynamically inserted code.

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            • Hughescov
              Hughescov last edited by

              Thanks for the clarification.

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