I'm trying out a program called WebCEO. I'm just starting out with it, it seems like an okay program, at least, for a FREE program (there are many features that really matter that are not included). There's one thing that I think the copywriters of the program could've written better... At first I thought it was going to tell me that I should remove Javascript... but if you read the highlighted portion, it gives the impression that Javascript "will move the important content closer to the beginning of the page". Is there anyone here who can clarify this? Am I reading this right? If so that doesn't make sense!
All it is saying is that in the source code, you can change the order of the content on your page. - translation: if you have a paragraph of text that is at the very end of your webpage, traditionally that text would be at the bottom of your source code also. With javascript you can make it appear first in the source code. That help?
If you ask me it is saying it is going to move the content of your page ahead of the javascript since the javascript is not going to bring you any rankings benefit but your page content will and hence should be closer to the beginning of the page. Not sure I agree with the program logic entirely, but I believe that is what is trying to tell you... albeit in a very ambiguous way.
But see, that's where it doesn't make sense (for me, at least). I'm under the impression that spiders see webpages verbatim line by line in the order as the source was written. There's no way for Javascript to "move content" at the time the page is served. That said, I'm wondering if in some poorly worded way it's suggesting to put all my Javascript into an external .js file? That'd be a way of "moving content" further up as it removes all the Javascript code from the <head>.
The search engines always don't like too much javascript ,such as google ,it is a hrad work for robot ,so html should be better.
I took the WebCEO course and they do recommend putting all javascript in a separate file to move the content higher up on the page and make the file size smaller because they said that Google only downloads 100K so if you have a lot of javascript, this could be a problem. You can use: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="myscript.js"> </SCRIPT>