JavaScript Error in Google

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JavaScript Error in Google

vetofunk

4:15 am on Nov 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hi,

I am working with a development company on a new site and I did a check in Google and see this coming up in the serps for our site:

JavaScript is disabled! Parts of this site require JavaScript to function correctly, please enable it in your browser settings. ...

Anyone know the reason this would be showing?

adb64

7:03 am on Nov 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

Your site relies on Javascript to function correctly, but search spiders don't do Javascript and they behave like browsers with Javscript turned off.
So make sure that the content of the site is also visible when Javascripting is disabled.

vetofunk

2:45 pm on Nov 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

Thanks!

I am working on this site for a friend of mine and his friend owns a development company, so I have never worked on this type of site before. Theie pages are .do files, which I have never worked with either.

penders

4:08 pm on Nov 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

It looks as if Google is picking up your "JavaScript is disabled!...." message from a NOSCRIPT section that is perhaps placed too high in your code?

vetofunk

4:27 pm on Nov 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

I actually started doing a little more research and noticed some of this company's other clients have the same thing showing up in Google. Wonder if its the way they were all created?...being a .do file?

Fotiman

6:43 pm on Nov 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

.do files are typically Java struts pages. Think of is like .asp or .php files. The end result contains HTML, but there is some server side processing that takes place first. That should have nothing to do with it.

As was pointed out, the generated content contains a <noscript> element containing the message you are seeing. If you disable JavaScript in your browser, you'll see the same message. This is just poor design. The developers relied heavily on JavaScript without providing a non-javascript alternative.

pageoneresults

6:48 pm on Nov 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hmmm, if that message is showing, does that mean the "entire site" is wrapped in JavaScript? When you view the source of the page, do you see actual content between the <body></body>?