10th July 2007

GWHG Highlight: Javascript

posted in SEO, highlights |

Google Groups pfingo wonders:

When i click on the cache, i get a google error.

And Webado sharply notes.

Disable javascript and then go and visit your homepage at http:// www . pfingo . com/

You will see a blank page but viewing the source code you will see this: [code]

This is 404 page (not found) , so this is all that a robot will see.

For your human visitors you have the javascript redirection which is totally useless for robots.

Google is not a person. She doesn’t view your website with firefox or internet explorer, which also means when crawling your site your java script is not going to be executed. If you use that script to redirect your visitor, google is not going to see it.

When designing your site you must not only consider how it looks in many browsers but how it works with features like Java and Flash turned off. Not all people, including Google, browse with these features on. Using allows you to download add-ons to disable javascript, view as IE, turn off images, highlight external links, etc.

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