Google FAQ about JavaScript and links

Google's Webmaster Central Blog posted an interesting FAQ on Tuesday, answering some of the most common questions they receive in the Webmaster office, at conferences, in the webmaster forum and on Twitter about links and especially those generated through JavaScript.

The piece was part of the Webmaster Conference Lightning Talks video series.

Here's an excerpt:

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What kind of URLs are okay for Googlebot?

Googlebot extracts the URLs from the href attribute of your links and then enqueues them for crawling. This means that the URL needs to be resolvable or simply put: The URL should work when put into the address bar of a browser. See the webmaster guidelines on links for more information.

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Read the entire Q&A here: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/20...ons-about.html

His (her? they? them? its? sorry I don't know the preferred personal pronoun) "big tech employee" look that is so common these days, doesn't it thrill you to know these people control the majority of your traffic!