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SILO THEME - Google now reads links in javascript

by zecke
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Hi

If You know silos and using them as Your theme, check Your links that You dont want to be indexed by Google crawler. Couple days ago I noticed that Google now reads all of them and index them as a regular html links. Check Your google text caches or check this fameous example of dafont.com: dafont.com

I testet about 5 different ways of using javascript and It`s all for nothing. The only way that I can hide links from crawler now is to create link as a image map.

Do You know any other ideas how to hide links ( just to make sure that Your using real silo power) or part of the text from the crawler after the update ? Thanks
#google #javascript #links #reads #silo #theme
  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    I don't know, which links are supposed to be javascript links and thus not read/recognized on that page?
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  • Profile picture of the author drinstech
    Hi zecke,

    I Don't understand, How can i check this?
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    • Profile picture of the author zecke
      For example these links: "A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z". But if You don`t use javascript links on Your site You got nothing to worry about
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  • Profile picture of the author zecke
    And there is more news: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-...and-19449.html
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by zecke View Post

      Interesting, thanks for sharing.

      I suppose we have to make more use of whatever it's called that makes you jump further down the page with # stuff.
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by zecke View Post

        Hi

        If You know silos and using them as Your theme, check Your links that You dont want to be indexed by Google crawler. Couple days ago I noticed that Google now reads all of them and index them as a regular html links. Check Your google text caches or check this fameous example of dafont.com: dafont.com

        I testet about 5 different ways of using javascript and It`s all for nothing. The only way that I can hide links from crawler now is to create link as a image map.

        Do You know any other ideas how to hide links ( just to make sure that Your using real silo power) or part of the text from the crawler after the update ? Thanks
        Yeah, Google announced they were pretty much fully rendering pages now back in like May. Took a bit of time to fully roll out.

        I've always used javascript to hide some links, but tried to avoid going overboard like dafont.com. I figured this change would be coming at some point. Now sites that hid a ton of links in javascript for PR sculpting are screwed. Their internal linking power just went in the shitter.

        One solution I know some people have used is iframes instead, but I think that looks a little too obvious that you are trying to manipulate things.

        Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

        Interesting, thanks for sharing.

        I suppose we have to make more use of whatever it's called that makes you jump further down the page with # stuff.
        No, that has nothing to do with any of this.
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        • Profile picture of the author nik0
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          Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

          No, that has nothing to do with any of this.
          Maybe you should learn to read, they appear not to be caching content behind those click to expand tabs so then this # stuff could be an outcome in terms of user usefullness/friendlyness.

          Here: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-...and-19449.html

          Read before you comment on other people's quotes.
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          • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
            Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

            Maybe you should learn to read, they appear not to be caching content behind those click to expand tabs so then this # stuff could be an outcome in terms of user usefullness/friendlyness.

            Here: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-...and-19449.html

            Read before you comment on other people's quotes.

            No I read it. I saw that story last week.

            Link jumps are fine and have a purpose on some sites. I don't think they would be of any value in the case of where someone is trying to hide text though.
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            • Profile picture of the author nik0
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              Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

              No I read it. I saw that story last week.

              Link jumps are fine and have a purpose on some sites. I don't think they would be of any value in the case of where someone is trying to hide text though.
              Most aren't trying to hide their content, but want to present their content in a more organized way. That's why I suggested this jumping.
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              • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
                Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

                Most aren't trying to hide their content, but want to present their content in a more organized way. That's why I suggested this jumping.
                Hide from the user is what I meant. They don't want all the content displayed when the page opens.
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                • Profile picture of the author nik0
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                  Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

                  Hide from the user is what I meant. They don't want all the content displayed when the page opens.
                  Ok, but still, imagine you start your post with an index, same like a book, that way they can go directly where they want to be. That was my idea and as it's at the start of the page they don't see all the extra content.

                  I know this site that made real useful use of these click to expand scripts btw, I'm going to keep track of his rankings to see if anything changed now that it might not be counted any more.
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  • Profile picture of the author edpudol1973
    Week ago I redirected old site to new site, instead of using 301 redirect I used javascript. My purpose is to redirect old/bookmarks visitors to my new site not bots. But I noticed that pages in new site that have no other way to get find them except the javascript redirect was listed already in google index pages.

    So I confirm they can now follow javascript links and redirect , I guess even javascript document.write
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by zecke View Post

    Hi

    If You know silos and using them as Your theme, check Your links that You dont want to be indexed by Google crawler. Couple days ago I noticed that Google now reads all of them and index them as a regular html links. Check Your google text caches or check this fameous example of dafont.com: dafont.com

    I testet about 5 different ways of using javascript and It`s all for nothing. The only way that I can hide links from crawler now is to create link as a image map.

    Do You know any other ideas how to hide links ( just to make sure that Your using real silo power) or part of the text from the crawler after the update ? Thanks
    Good find, I haven't looked at the dafont cache in a long time.

    The alpha.js & themesv8_en.js on dafont look the same as usual.

    An option for dafont might be to push the top nav links to the footer in the HTML source code like Wikipedia does, or wrap the nav link bundle in an internal iframe (PM If you need an example).

    BTW, I have no doubts that over complicated .js still works, look at some of the .js heavy themes on Themeforest. Most of those themes suck for passing internal links.
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