Does the links in the <noscript> tag get crawled by Googlebot ?
This is the purpose of this SEO test.
I’ve added a <noscript> tag in this page, and each time a bot crawls the links in the <noscript> tag, I’ll get an email.
A better version would be to also store in database the number of time it has been crawled, by which bots (using UserAgent + regex for instance). It might be easily implemented in WordPress as a plugin. But since I’m not very aware of how it works and because the result of this test is pretty important to take a decision, I’ll just keep my logic for tests as it is 🙂
This is how it looks in the source code; I’ve simply updated the content of the parameter “test” in the screenshot, to make sure that even if Googlebot uses OCR, it can’t discover the link
<noscript><a href="https://www.quentinadt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/email-me-if-visited.php?test=noscript_link_body">test noscript link body</a></noscript>
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