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    • FreddyKgapza
      FreddyKgapza last edited by

      Hi All,

      I have this problem, that has been a pain in the ****. I get tons of crawl errors from "Googlebot" saying a specific Javascript method does not exist in my logs. I then go to the affected page and test in a web browser and the page works without any Javascript errors.

      Can some help with resolving this issue?

      Thanks in advance.

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      • effectdigital
        effectdigital last edited by

        I think with this being such a niche query, we'd really need to see an example of a page which is triggering the error - to even attempt to help!

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        • BlueprintMarketing
          BlueprintMarketing last edited by

          I agree With Effectdigital we would need to see a copy of the page to be able to help with that.

          It's more common than you think.

          Maybe share the page from Google search console?

          Hope this helps,

          Tom

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          • BlueprintMarketing
            BlueprintMarketing last edited by

            Can you post a log file?

            if you don’t want the domain shown search & replace it with example.com ?

            or show us a photo of the problem?

            or use screaming Frog to run a Java test?

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