Thursday, October 30, 2014

Google makes update to indexing system


Well-known Digital Marketing Agency, Google has made an update to its Webmaster Guidelines, which will likely have an impact on sites that are blocking JavaScript or CSS files. Google’s Webmaster Central Blog announces that the tech giant has updated its indexing system to function more like a modern browser, which includes having CSS and JavaScript active.

Google advised users on allowing Googlebot to access the JavaScript, CSS, and image files that a website uses: “This provides you optimal rendering and indexing for your site. Disallowing crawling of JavaScript or CSS files in your site’s robots.txt directly harms how well our algorithms render and index your content and can result in suboptimal rankings.”

Below is the updated Google indexing advice:

1. Google’s rendering engine may support not all technologies.

2. The design of your website should adhere to progressive enhancement principles to ensure that engines can scan the usable and supported content.

3. Page load speed is still very important for users and indexing.

4. Make sure your server is enabled to support serving JavaScript and CSS files to Googlebot.


Google makes update to indexing system

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