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Do search engine crawlers support Java scripts?

Jun 6th, 2008 23:35
Amit Sood, Sussanta Sahoo, http://www.creativ-eras.com

Search Engine Crawlers love the written content. But, as the technology
has reached it's heights the Search Engines are now able to crawl the
pictures and some are also do it for flash and dynamic websites.
This new tendency of search engines is to give the online users a
complete information for there search. Coming back to the question
crawlers are not able to read the client side scripts till date. SEO
professionals have to work hard to illuminate these client side scripts
for their job. As compared with the Server side scripts crawlers are
comfortable with it and no issues for it.
Therefore, all optimizers should work on this technology and resist java
script in pages.
Not all search engine crawlers support java scripts. For instance,
Google did not used to support java scripts until a year ago. However,
its crawler is now crawling the Java scripts. But, this does not allow
you the freedom that you can build the entire website using Java
scripts. Google’s crawler at times faces problem in crawling the entire
Java script. In fact, it is never recommended that you should prepare
your site map or navigation menus using java scripts as these are the
gateway to the other pages. If search engine crawler fails to crawl
these parts, then you entire site can not be visited by the site engine
crawlers and it will severely affect your search engine ranking. 
Amit Sood
http://www.creativ-eras.com