Google Doesn’t Have Exceptions for Sites with Unclean Headers
Posted On : March 14th, 2019 By : Dillip K Mohanty To : Technical SEORecently on Twitter, Kristine Schachinger questioned whether iframe code added in the head part of the website after the execution of Akamai tracking’s loader snippet is breaking Google Crawler.
Also, Barry Adams backed this question and said, the Akamai iframe code breaks Google’s processing of the site’s hreflang tags.
Yes and yes. The Akamai iframe broke Google’s processing of the site’s hreflang tags. Definitely an issue.
— Barry Adams 🧩 (@badams) March 12, 2019
It is a major issue. So, what webmasters should do?
Here goes the answer.
Google’s John Mueller in his reply to Kristine said Google doesn’t have exceptions for sites having unclean head sections. Webmasters should fix this issue either by moving such codes to the bottom of the page or try using different methods like headers and sitemap.
We don’t have exceptions for sites that “can’t make a clean head section”, so you either have to fix it (maybe move it to the bottom of the head?), use a different method (headers, sitemap), or assume we won’t always be able to pick it up.
— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) March 12, 2019
Therefore, it is better to have a website with clean head section.
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