Why not?

It's easy to do and should only take the site maintainer a couple of minutes.

It will help users get better (more relevant) Google search results.

If you fear we will end up adding specific codes for dozens of search engines, that fear is unfounded. Google is 70% of the search market share, so adding just the code for Google we'll get most of the gain.

From what I see, the googleon/googleoff tag was introduced since 2009 so it's quite mature.

Even if Google decides to ignore the tag, the tag is a normal HTML comment tag so it won't do any rendering harm.

In reply to Re^2: Adding googleon/googleoff to portions of the right sidebar? by perlancar
in thread Adding googleon/googleoff to portions of the right sidebar? by perlancar

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