Setting title tag with javascript/jquery

[peterallen]

Hi there,

I'm looking for some advice. I've recently implemented a few jQuery functions which gets specific content from the page and then sets the title and description.

See working example here.

It seems to work fine but my question I have is whether Google bots can read it and whether it might actually hinder my SEO efforts?

Any advice would be really appreciated!

Peter

[driftingbass]

No, Google won't see it - you're meant to make your site accessible to those with JS turned off. Check using GWT 'fetch as Google'.

You could, however, do this with PHP.

[RobertFisher]

Peter

I agree with Jon,

Also, your page is loading quite slowly when I use Google Pagespeed insights. You might want to run it on the site and just look at what it is suggesting.

Hope this helps you out,

Robert

[peterallen]

Thanks for the reply!

Unfortunately I cannot do this in PHP as the property details are rendered using XML and I don't have access to the files as it's saved on our software providers server (they have also said they would not know how to implement this) - I also have little to no experience with XML so that's why I thought i'd try javascript.

[peterallen]

Robert,

Thanks for the reply!

The main reason for changing the title/description tags with javascript was to make the pages more indexable (and readable on google). Would you say these pages will provide any SEO benefits to the rest of the website? Or would it be better to set a nofollow tag?

I will have a look into speeding up the property pages however it's most likely because the information is being rendered on our software providers server which at the same time is probably handling 1000's of other requests aswell

[RobertFisher]

I don't think your javascript usage is helping you. I am not sure as to why you would nofollow something you sought to improve for SEO.

As to speed, you have more issues than your provider's server. Download Google Insights and run the page speed tool. You will see what I mean.

Best,