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CSS and JS File names change often on am HTML page -- Does it affect rank?

by kellogg9
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I understand that search engines crawl pages and look at css and js files to help render them for indexing. But i am curious. If the css/js external links held within the html page were to change names this would result in 404 responses if search engines tried to call the old css/js file locations directly (because they no longer exist) without returning to (and refreshing) the main html page to see that the css/js filenames have changed. If this happens often on an html page will that affect a sites page rank?

I ask because i know there are cache plugins that change their css and JS file names on each cache clear and so i would imagine search engines would get a lot of 404 responses IF and ONLY IF they are directly calling these old css/js file locations later without first finding out the main html page had changed.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    CSS and JS files don't matter for SEO. Just make sure you don't include any content you're trying to optimize for SEO inside JS files.
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