Technical SEO FAQ · JavaScript SEO & Rendering
How would you diagnose a JavaScript SEO problem?
Use a controlled comparison:
- Raw HTTP response.
- Browser-rendered DOM.
- Google Search Console URL Inspection.
- HTTP status.
- robots directives.
- canonical.
- links.
- structured data.
- JavaScript console/runtime errors.
- API/resource requests.
Look for differences between what the server initially sends and what becomes available after rendering.
Common failures include:
- content only available after failed API requests;
- important links created by non-crawlable interactions;
- canonical changed incorrectly;
- noindex injected unexpectedly;
- resources blocked by robots.txt;
- hydration errors;
- inconsistent rendering.
Related questions
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- How can JavaScript affect internal linking?
- How can you determine whether important content is available in rendered HTML?
- How do JavaScript redirects affect SEO?
- How does Google process JavaScript-heavy websites?
- How would you audit a React, Next.js, Vue or Angular website for SEO?
- What happens between Google's initial HTML fetch and JavaScript rendering?
- What happens when server-rendered HTML differs from client-rendered HTML?
- When would you recommend SSR, CSR, SSG or hybrid rendering?
