I have searched for this but threads seem to be very old so I wanted to check the up-to-date position. Question is, to what extent google look at javascript. Specifically, I have added google maps to a site, that uses a large number of place markers. Hence I have a lot of pages where there are perhaps 500 lines of code identical to many files, within javascript. See http://www.francethisway.com/mbv-monpazier.php as example. I want to avoid duplicate content penalties. Should I worry? Or is there a command I can add at the beginning and end of the script explicitly telling googlebot to ignore the section?
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769 Even acording to this, still JavaScript are in the dark side for spider. I think you are safe.
If the only thing that's duplicate is the javascript-code, you don't have to worry. I do hope that you have navigation-links outside your javascript though - otherwise you are effectively saying to google: don't index these pages please!
if you use to create link , it may read . but you must use <a href="javascript ... if you use like this format , it's possible
Thanks, very useful to have it confirmed. No problem with links by the way - all pages are accessed by 'normal' text links as well. Cheers