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Dirk,

Excellent tip.  Thanks for keeping me out of trouble!

Dan

Dirk,

Thank you very much for the clear explanation.  I'm a lot more confident that we don't have an indexing issue brewing, but disappointed that I can't use Screaming Frog like normal and still wary that the link is somehow compromised in a way I can't articulate.

Do you think there's a benefit to changing to regular href links, or do I just need to update my thinking?

I understand your note about degrading gracefully also.

Thank you!

Thanks Joe.

I see your screenshot shows a link clearly in the inspector (which I didn't think to look at), but the source code itself shows script only.  I'm using a crawler from screaming frog and it can't follow the link.  At the moment I can't check in GWT (due to Robots.txt - and yes, it's in dev!)  How do these two view jibe?

Thank you!

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A client has a huge, unique, updated list of B2B products that are in javascript and not indexed.  Reading around, I think I've found that:

• Google allows showing bots and users different content (if it's fundamentally the same) with  no penalty
• There are good, bad, and ugly ways to do it
• It's a semi-common problem
• There are services like prerender.io and formerly ajaxsnapshots.com that can help with this

However.....

I can't find a single authoritative (read: from Google or Moz) that says the above point 1. I found this White Hat Cloaking: It exists. It's permitted. It's useful. But can't tell where my situation fits (or if it does).

So... if I use prerender.io to surface content to get it indexed... is that a smart move?  I'm 95% sure it is, but I need 100% to make the decision.