Comments on: Google Crawling Javascript Links with Clean URLs

By: Seyed Mohammad Hossein Mayboudi

Seyed Mohammad Hossein Mayboudi — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:14:45 +0000

“Not actually executing, as far as I know — but taking javascript as text, and then seeing if something that looks like a url may be in the script. ” from tedster #:713780

By: M.S. Babaei

M.S. Babaei — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:05:00 +0000

really can google crawl javascript links…

for example, ajax pages from database

By: Sam George

Sam George — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:52:52 +0000

Some JavaScript code is more search engine friendly than others. As a general rule of thumb, the simpler the script is, the more likely a search engine spider can crawl the link.

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Mon, 01 May 2006 21:30:43 +0000

The first Javascript crawl that I know of came out of Stanford University several years ago. Google has been fetching my Javascript template files for 2-3 years. Matt Cutts has confirmed on his blog that Google does in fact look at the Javascript in an effort to determine what its purpose is.

I’ve long felt it was only a matter of time before they started crawling the URLs they find in the Javascript. They don’t have to execute the code to parse it for fetchable URLs. Whether they’ll factors those links into their other indexing functions is a whole ‘nother issue.

But as Google expands it Javascript crawling, many Webmasters should take this as a hopeful sign that they can continue to use the type of internal navigation they prefer without having to worry about whether their pages will be crawled.

Of course, I’m not expecting Google to radicalize its crawling over night — other than what they just did with Big Daddy.

By: Search Engines WEB

Search Engines WEB — Mon, 01 May 2006 20:08:11 +0000

This, basically, has been going on for quite some time …

Here is a more recent controversial example ….

googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/03/googlebot-can-destroy-sites.html

By: Clark Jones

Clark Jones — Mon, 01 May 2006 17:08:33 +0000

I have had a similar experience yesterday where my stats had googlebot logged as a visitor using only javascript for the stats, after checking the ip it pointed to mountain view so at first i thought those nice guys and gals are giving me a vist then afterwards i thought maybe its one of their new bots which is looking for javascript redirects etc..