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: SEO - Google and link cleaning / cloaking Possible Duplicate: Does the Google spider render JavaScript? This a SEO related question, not a code related one. Googles own link cleaning

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Does the Google spider render JavaScript?




This a SEO related question, not a code related one.

Googles own link cleaning / cloaking

Gå to www.google.com and search for something.


Hover the title and you will se a link to the page you want to go to.
The URL you see when hovering is NOT the link you are clicking on.
Instead of clicking you can drag the title a little bit and then hover it. Then you will se the real URL.


My own link cleaning / cloaking


Go to jsfiddle.net/NvmER/1/ and click the link, or look at the code below.
You will be "redirected" to www.test.com. The real link are www.test.com/?event=23

Working code in case jsfiddle don't work

If you need to se how it works I pasted a code below.

<a class="direct" href="http://www.test.com/?event=23" data-redirect="http://www.test.com">Länk</a>​

$(document).ready(function() {
$("a.direct").live("mousedown", function(e){
var oldurl = $(this).attr('href');
var newurl = $(this).attr('data-redirect');
$(this).attr('href', newurl);
});
});​


Question

Is this ok with Google? It's done with javascript.

If you have an answer, link to a source or test to support it.

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@Sarah324

It's hard to say for sure but the answer is probably no. As a general rule search engines don't parse and run JavaScript which makes it not SE-friendly. However, that is slowly changing as they have started to run some JavaScript. Now what they are able to run and what they don't is unknown. So if SEO is a priority then you have to assume they cannot follow these links.

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