: Will JavaScript influence my search position in Google? I have a script which does some position fixes within my site - things like $(".slider_text").css("paddingLeft", procentaj_stdr); $(".slider_text").css("paddingTop",

@Steve110

No! There will be no specific influence in your Google SERP if you use JavaScript in your webpage. In older days Google was not that much smart to fetch dynamically generating contents, JavaScript and AJAX but now Google algorithm is very smart to Crawl and Index those contents.


Historically, SEO recommendations have centered around having ‘plain
text’ content whenever possible. Dynamically generated content, AJAX,
and JavaScript links have been a detriment to SEO for the major search
engines. Clearly, that is no longer the case for Google. Javascript
links work in a similar manner to plain HTML links


This is the statement in Search Engine Land article titled We Tested How Googlebot Crawls Javascript And Here What We Learned. They tested 5 category of tests like


JavaScript Redirects
JavaScript Links
Dynamically Inserted Content
Dynamically Inserted Meta Data and Page Elements
An Important Example with rel=“nofollow”


All these cases were passed successfully and Google was able to fetch and index those contents just like other Plain Texts which means that there would be no change in Google SERP if you use JavaScript in your website.

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