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The JavaScript based websites. He reiterated that they are able to process most kinds of JavaScript based websites normally but some things you still have to watch out for like these links. in the video. mlENsVUEI John Mueller Hangout Transcript John Question Alright so first up we have a few customer pages using Next.js without a robots.txt or a sitemap file. Simplified theoretically Googlebot can reach all of these pages. But why is only the homepage getting indexed There are no errors or warnings in Search Console.
Why doesnt Googlebot find the other pages John Answer So maybe taking a step back Next.js is a JavaScript framework which means that the whole page is kind of generated with JavaScript. But kind of as in kind of a general answer as well for all of these kinds of questions. Like why is Google not indexing everything Its important to first say that Googlebot Czech Republic Mobile Number List never index everything across a website. I dont think it happens to any kind of nontrivialsized website that Google would go off and index completely everything. Its just from a practical point of view its not possible to index everything across the whole web. So that kind of assumption that the ideal situation is everything is indexed.
I would leave that aside and say like you really want Googlebot to focus on the important pages. The other thing though which became a little bit clearer when I think the person contacted me on Twitter and gave me a little bit more information about their website was that this the way that the website was generating links to the other pages was in a way that Google was not able to pick up. So in particular with JavaScript you can take any element on an HTML page and say if someone clicks on this then execute this piece of JavaScript. And that piece of JavaScript can be to navigate to a different.
Why doesnt Googlebot find the other pages John Answer So maybe taking a step back Next.js is a JavaScript framework which means that the whole page is kind of generated with JavaScript. But kind of as in kind of a general answer as well for all of these kinds of questions. Like why is Google not indexing everything Its important to first say that Googlebot Czech Republic Mobile Number List never index everything across a website. I dont think it happens to any kind of nontrivialsized website that Google would go off and index completely everything. Its just from a practical point of view its not possible to index everything across the whole web. So that kind of assumption that the ideal situation is everything is indexed.
I would leave that aside and say like you really want Googlebot to focus on the important pages. The other thing though which became a little bit clearer when I think the person contacted me on Twitter and gave me a little bit more information about their website was that this the way that the website was generating links to the other pages was in a way that Google was not able to pick up. So in particular with JavaScript you can take any element on an HTML page and say if someone clicks on this then execute this piece of JavaScript. And that piece of JavaScript can be to navigate to a different.