Google (or SEs in general) and javascript

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by nsusa, Jun 26, 2006.

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  1. #1
    Could not find an answer to this question. So, here it goes.

    One of my websites pulls content (text) onto a page via Javascript from a database. Will Google be able to see the content at all or is their "text-based" spider approach blind towards javascript? Any idea?

    Thanks for your feedback.

    Christoph
     
    nsusa, Jun 26, 2006 IP
  2. TorchedSEO

    TorchedSEO Well-Known Member

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    i'm sure google and other se's can read javascript but they won't execute it or index it so to answer your question, most likely not.
     
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  3. CJan_NH

    CJan_NH Peon

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    This might be helpful to you :)
    http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=238109

    "Make every single page on your site accessible via a text-based link
    - as opposed to Javascript, Flash, DHTML, etc. The Googlebot only
    speaks text.

    [...]

    Make all relevant information on a page textual. Don't embed page
    content into images or objects like Flash movies. Did I mention the
    Googlebot only speaks text?"
     
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  4. nsusa

    nsusa Peon

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    Cool. Thanks for clarifying this. I was able to get around the problem with PHP. :)

    Christoph
     
    nsusa, Jun 26, 2006 IP