How to have content in view-source of page

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I am having a problem with Google Ads where they want to verify some assets (phone number) on our website. Now I do show those numbers on my pages, but Google wants them to be present in “view source” of the page. But when I do the view source, I just find a lot of javascript code.

How do I have something show up in ‘view source’?

The page is on version 21 already (which is where I understand it was done such that page will be generated on the server and HTML of the page would be sent)

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bumping

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Anyone?

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I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for, but I just checked, and HTML that I added to the page HTML Header on the page properties window definitely shows up in plain text when I view page source:
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Thanks @msgiblin for the reply. Your suggestion will add content only in head and not body, right?

In general, from what I know, Google likes to see things in body (i.e. as visible to users) instead of them being hidden unless put as part of some meta tags.

However, I think it is a good suggestion to try out. I am going to try it out and let you know if this works with Google Ads.

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UPDATE: Adding text in head did work I guess. When I applied for the asset again in Google ads after this change, it is approved now. Though I had made the asset available in our contact-us page too so not sure if that played a role as well.

So since it is approved, it is good.

However, the experience is not the ideal now. When the page loads first that text that I have added in head shows up for a second and then the content of the page loads. :frowning:

Also, I am not very sure of how is this practice of having dangling text in head considered from standards of HTML and SEO perspective.

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Is it possible to give it local CSS tags to keep the formatting invisible?

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Any text in head doesn’t support any formatting. Ideally no text is supposed to be there in the head section.

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Interesting! Unfortunately we’re a bit out of my scope now (although I’ll be doing SEO optimization later this spring so I hope there’s a straightforward answer :smiley: )

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Sure. Thanks for the help, though.

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