New changes in the GOOGLEBOT: Now following JavaScript links?

by orvn

Posted: 15 years ago 5 replies

So as of August, it appears Google's made some changes to its crawlers' protocols.

This has always been the way I understood bots handle JavaScript:

- Bots are busy entities.
- They don't like to waste their time on javascript.
- What happens if a javascript enabled bot hits an unresponsive script?
- They'll wait for a timeout.
- This can be extremely detrimental to efficiency, so the bots just surf with javascript turned off.

I'm getting freshly published information from all over the internet about how Google seems to:
1) examine the javascript
2) determine any links
3) determine if the links are worth following
4) if yes, mark for following
5) else ignore and carry on

Check this out:
SEOmoz | YOUmoz - New Reality: Google Follows Links in JavaScript.

Just want to get your thoughts on this development and confirmation that it is indeed new.

#googlebot #javascript #links

dburk 15 years ago

Hi orvn,

This is not new, look at the published date of that article. Google has been doing this for several years.
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yukon Banned 15 years ago

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- orvn 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  BTW, that article link you posted is from August 7th, 2008
  
  lol OOPS, FAIL.
  I swear I read 2010 for some reason. I had the notion embedded into my head that this article was written early August, 2010.
  
  My mistake everyone,
  Carry on.
  
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jazbo 15 years ago

LMAO! When I read this I thought "eh? Google has followed js for years".

Then I saw the date of the SEO moz post linked to.

Epic fail old chap.
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biggame5 15 years ago

No worries we all make mistakes.
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