JavaScript & SEO: Making Your Bot Experience As Good As Your User Experience

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Understanding JavaScript and its potential impact on search performance is a core skillset of the modern SEO professional. If search engines can’t crawl a site or can’t parse and understand the content, nothing is going to get indexed and the site is not going to rank.

 

The most important questions for an SEO relating to JavaScript: Can search engines see the content and grasp the website experience? If not, what solutions can be leveraged to fix this?

 

Fundamentals

 

What is JavaScript?

 

 

When creating a modern web page, there are three major components:

 

1. HTML – Hypertext Markup Language serves as the backbone, or organizer of content, on a site. It is the structure of the website (e.g. headings, paragraphs, list elements, etc.) and defining static content.
   
2. CSS – Cascading Style Sheets are the design, glitz, glam, and style added to a website. It makes up the presentation layer of the page.
   
3. JavaScript – JavaScript is the interactivity and a core component of the dynamic web.
   

 

Learn more about webpage development and how to code basic JavaScript.

 

 

 

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