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Google now requires JavaScript-enabled browsers to view the content of search result pages, effectively “hiding” the listings from organic rank trackers, artificial intelligence models, and other optimization tools. The world’s most popular search engine began requiring JavaScript on search pages last month. Google stated the move aimed to protect its services from bots and “abuse,” perhaps a thinly veiled allusion to competitive AI. These changes could complicate search engine optimization in at least three ways: rank tracking, keyword research, and AI visibility. Impact of JavaScript Web crawlers can scrape and index JavaScript-enabled pages even when the JavaScript itself renders the content. Googlebot does this, for example. A web-scraping bot grabs the content of an HTML page in four steps, more or less: Request. The crawler sends a simple HTTP GET request to the URL. Response. The server returns the HTML content. Parse. The crawler parses (analyzes) the HTML, gathering the content. Use. The content is passed on for storage or use. For example, before the JavaScript switch, bots from Ahrefs and Semrush crawled Google SERPs. Read article > |
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