I'm setting up a new site & I'm using RSS to display headlines & some content from other parts of the site to the main page. The RSS is being displayed using an external javascript on my site. I might have 10 headlines with content but when I look at the page source none of that content is displayed at all in the page source just the javascript code. So I'm wondering would Google scan the page which has the text or the page source which doesn't have the text. All the content is originating from my site & I know it will get spidered but I'm mainly concerned about the main index page.
Although there have been a few mentions around the forums lately that Google is crawling JavaScript, I wouldn't rely on it. Maybe you could look into using a technology like PHP which generates HTML that the bots will read. There are PHP RSS parsers readily available, and a few minutes searching on Google should give you a few leads. Good luck John
You could use Magpie RSS http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/ it's works great and gets well spidered. Usage in PHP.