While browsing today, Jan 8, 2007 at the Microsoft website, I read that search engines cannot follow links that are within javascript. This got me confused as, a little while ago, I read somewhere that search engines can now follow javascript links. Which information is more current?
the best thing is to search for some thing in Google and click on the cached page of a particular website having Javascript like Google adsense's Javascript and in the cached page you may certianly see the google adsense ads which indicate that the Javascript has been indexed
Do a small experiment..... Refresh the cache page you are viewing. You will notice that ads do change. If it is indexed (means static content taken into google's cache), how it can change??
I think it depends on how the link is coded within javascript. I very much doubt adsense ads are counted as links, for instance. It would not make sense: google knows for certain those are paid links and they want to avoid counting paid links.
Yes exactly, but they do take the links which is inside <noscript> tag. Example - statcounter.com Check out their backlinks, most are from sites which has added the tracking code. each tracking code has a link to statcounter.com , and thats how they are PR10 and #1 for many keywords like 'free hitcounter' , 'web statistics' etc
I don't think they can spider JS stuff yet as what most members have mentioned.. Although I hope that this can be true in future