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Is this illegal?

Last Modified Date and <!-- paragraphs

         

hulahoop

8:27 pm on Dec 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello,

Is this illegal?

1) Putting the following above your page as if a decription of what the site is about
<!--
<p>
blah blah blah ...
</p>
-->

2) Is putting a 'Last Modified' date above with the daily date retrieve from a server illegal? Is it illegal if you don't displaying it but just churn it out for the SEs? This seemingly lets the SE think the page is updated daily.

Appreciate the advice

pageoneresults

12:26 am on Dec 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Is this illegal?

Legal in what sense? Your example shows a commented out piece of html. Where does legal come into play? HTML comments are treated as html markup. If you see someone stuffing descriptions inside html comments, you've come across an amateur in the SEO space.

But, it looks like your example shows a <p></p> that was commented out. This could have been done for a variety of reasons with the main one being that the developer wanted to keep that code on the page but not make it visible to the user.

Is putting a 'Last Modified' date above with the daily date retrieve from a server illegal?

I'll have to ask again; legal in what sense? Nothing wrong with putting last modified dates on pages. In fact, it is highly recommended as it lets your visitors know that the content is being updated periodically.