Technical SEO FAQ · JavaScript SEO & Rendering
How can JavaScript affect internal linking?
A crawlable link should generally use an anchor element with an href:
<a href="https://www.theseocentral.com/technical-seo">Technical SEO</a>
A clickable div that relies entirely on JavaScript is not equivalent to a normal crawlable anchor.
JavaScript can also generate links after rendering. Google can process JavaScript-generated links, but the output should still follow crawlable-link best practices.
Audit:
- HTML source;
- rendered DOM;
- anchor hrefs;
- relative/absolute URLs;
- blocked URLs;
- dynamically generated navigation.
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