Page 2 - How much Javascript can SEs read?

I used href="javascript:window.location = 'full url';"

Wouldnt a way to do it be take out all of the meta tags and just have it in the title on a new page. That way when it gets linked to if google can read the javascript it will show the content inside it as the description...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22C7%3A+Utilising+workforce+optimisation+techno logy%22

This website has FAQs and takes the content from another Javascript file. it seems that google does read this. the strange thing though is that it can not read the breaks. "/n"

In terms of functions etc i am looking into if it can read them.

Thus far the page (test page 1) has not been indexed despite the link from this page and others.

My assumption (and it is only an assumption) at the moment is that if the search engine can see now content ie it ignores the javascript then it will see a completely blank page - no DTD or anything.
I assume that if that is the case it won't index it. The page doesn't come up for the anchor text search either.

The other test page 2 which is only linked to via a javascript link is now indexed.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ajsstp&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

This shows that a window.location type javascript inline in the anchor text does in fact get followed by search engines. This was the main point the testing.

There are 3 other types of javascript links we are going to try.

I will post more results as the test continues.

NB: The page is only indexed in Google, giving further weight to th fact that Google has more advanced user agent.

tstolber

good find the javascript link indexing,

we definetelly should try the 3 other javascript choices

Yeah, thanks for your help.

I am just about to leave for the US so I will be traveling for most of Monday. I will get onto it sometime Tuesday hopefully.

My speculation is that inline locatoion="http:// etc javascript can be read but any function calls can not.
Maybe it will turn out that it can read that too.

Interesting that it hasn't index any of the page with document.write yet it can clearly understand such syntax.

Good work with the JavaScript link test. I think it's quite a big find to work out that JavaScript code is indeed crawled and not just completely ignored.

Thanks, yeah I agree. And it was so simple - this was the whole idea behind this section of the forum.

We will be doing some further testing in due course.

Thanks to all those that helped in the testing.

So I can take both links down?

Yes you can if you like, definately the second one.

If you don't mind, please leave the first one. As this test has not yet proven to index the javascript page.
If we leave it longer it may get indexed? I may add some static content and see if this helps.

Thanks

The first page has now been indexed

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=www.theseofiles.co.uk%2Fseo-test-page-1.html&btnG=Search&meta=

Interestingly thought doing a search for the title of the site in quotes the page still does not come up.
The page is cached and in the index if you search for its URL.

My conclusion on this is that Google can and will index content with document.write javascript but it certainly does not do very well as there is 0 competition for the term and it doesn't come up at all.

Surely the result in Google proves it doesn't index the content? Hence nothing returned under the title on the results page.

I see your point, I guess it depends on what you consider is meant by index.

In my view it is "indexed" as it has a cahced version of the site in its "index" so I assume it to be indexed. But I consider it a point to note that despite it having this content in its index it did not return any results for it.

This was one of the things I was trying to ffigure out. Is it just my browser that is viewing the cache google has of the page? Obviously things done with document.write do precious little as Google doesn't see the data in them.

Its interesting that it follows javascript URLs though.

I need to do some more control tests and try out other javascript functions. I am pretty buys at the moment but it is definately something I will follow up.

any update? im dying to know.........

Realized after 1 year???