Search Engine Roundtable

Google Minor Updates To JavaScript Docs & Drops Most Of Dynamic Rendering Details

Googlebot queues pages for both crawling and rendering. It is not immediately obvious when a page is waiting for crawling and when it is waiting for rendering. When Googlebot fetches a URL from the ...
TechSpot

JavaScript now mandatory for Google Search, Google confirms

In a nutshell: Google recently confirmed that JavaScript is now required for users to submit queries to its web search service. According to a company spokesperson, the new requirement will improve ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google Updates JavaScript SEO Docs With Canonical Advice

Canonicalization happens both before and after rendering. Conflicting canonical signals between raw HTML and JavaScript output can cause unexpected indexing results. Google recommends setting the ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Deep Dive On How Google Search Indexes JavaScript

The folks at Vercel and MERJ put together a super deep dive on how Google Search handles indexing JavaScript. They analyzed over 100,000 Googlebot fetches across various sites to test and validate ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google Shows How To Confirm Indexing Issues Due To JavaScript

SearchNorwich recently published an excellent video featuring Google’s Martin Splitt discussing how to debug crawling and indexing issues related to JavaScript, saying that most of the times it’s not ...
Search Engine Land

Google says don’t use JavaScript to generate a noindex tag in the original page code

Google updated its JavaScript SEO basics documentation to clarify that may skip rendering and JavaScript execution. Google has updated its JavaScript SEO basics documentation to clarify how Google’s ...
The Next Web

Google’s biggest Maps update in a decade puts Gemini in the passenger seat

Ask Maps lets users query the world in natural language. Immersive Navigation rebuilds directions in 3D. Together, they mark the most significant overhaul of Google Maps since Street View. The ...