News Feed - Does it affect ranking

Java Script if added

[India_max]

Hi All,

I was wondering whether adding a Java Script of News Scrolling, from various News Content providers, affect Google rankings.

I am asking this from view point of Googlebot not reading entire content of page due to Java Script. This is on the HomePage

Thankx in advance.

India_max

[India_max]

Duh.....did anyone get the question? or does it seem of no omportance at all?

Somebody....please respond....please....

[Dayo_UK]

India_Max

I would be amazed if including a bit of Javascript for a newsfeed will affect your Google ranking in any significant way.

[ncw164x]

I was always lead to believe that googlebot stoped when it got to javascript code and left the page and that's why it was the better option not to have javascript on your site or to have an external javascript file (nameoffile.js) I have used both and found that the page can hang on loading until the javascript file had been received by the browser.

Only 2-3 seconds extra but it matters.

That's when you have control of a file loading from your site, a news feed is being called from a server out of your control which could be slow at loading which will slow down your index page from loading.

Now that said the adsense code from google is javascript and makes no difference to the ranking of a page so maybe googlebot is programmed to pick up javascript now

Not being negative just saying from my personal experience using javascript on a site.

Hope this helps

ncw164x

[India_max]

Thanks ncw164x for your reply. That's what I always believed & therefore avoided Javascripts & kept my webpages simple.

But now that Adsense also uses the same, it seems there should not be any problems in googlebot reading the entire homepage, right till the end.

Thankx for your reply. Anyone have any other views?

India_max

[defanjos]

I was always lead to believe that googlebot stoped when it got to javascript code and left the page

That is wrong, Google might skip the JS, but it won't leave the page - it will read the rest of the code.

If that was the case, Google's number of indexed pages would not be in the billions.

[ncw164x]

>>but it won't leave the page

Googlebot used to but does not now is what I was trying to say

ncw164x