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There's one very important user who doesn't run Javascript: Googlebot. If your site displays no content without scripting you are invisible to search engines. S
by NelsonMinar 15y ago
There's one very important user who doesn't run Javascript: Googlebot. If your site displays no content without scripting you are invisible to search engines. So this blog post's advice to display some static fallback is useful; not for the NoScript weirdos but for SEO.
Hopefully the search engines will fix their spiders. In the meantime we have ugly workarounds like the #!/escaped_fragment nonsense.
- lucian1900 15y agoAlthough this is a fair point, even the googlebot has started running JS.
- NelsonMinar 15y agoYeah, it does execute some JS, but not a lot. Here's a Dec 2011 analysis; a more current writeup would be welcome. http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/google-stop-playing-the-jig-is-still-up-guest-post/ http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/google-stop-playing-the-ji...
- Drbble 15y agoAnd Googlebot the indexes content, not apps. As long as you don't use Google's broken blog platform (ha, irony) your blog with your content works fine without JS, creating SEO juice for your JS app.