Google recently posted a new help document around JavaScript and SEO. Google received some early feedback from the SEO community around the doc and as of this morning has updated the doc to address those questions and concerns.
Here was the original feedback:
@googlewmc Hello, I would like to offer some feedback that maybe the JS robots 🤖 documentation could be a bit clearer. Myself and the honourable Mr Heatard were struggling with it. https://t.co/ptuG9N8o7I
— Colin McDermott ☂️ (@colinmcdermott) July 25, 2019
Martin then responded on Twitter shortly later:
Thanks Martin it is really appreciated of you to clarify that! Cheers
— Colin McDermott ☂️ (@colinmcdermott) July 26, 2019
And today, Martin told us Google has updated those documents:
There we go: https://t.co/hbTA9Z5Apv
— Martin Splitt @ 🇨🇭🏡 (@g33konaut) August 13, 2019
Here are the specifics:
An update to the Google JS SEO docs: now includes a clear statement on the usage of meta noindex via JS & a code example blocking indexing of a URL after an API fail. https://t.co/ANNikzlkRb
Thanks @g33konaut – cc @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/KQu9V80VTA
— Colin McDermott ☂️ (@colinmcdermott) August 13, 2019
So nice to see this happen so quickly and with the SEO community.
Forum discussion at Twitter.