JavaScript SEO
Making sure content and links built with JavaScript can be rendered, crawled and indexed by search engines.
Google renders JavaScript, but in a second stage after crawling, and other crawlers — including many AI crawlers — often do not run JavaScript at all. Content and links present in the initial HTML are the safest; server-side rendering or static generation provides that for JavaScript frameworks.
Links should be real <a href> elements, not click handlers, so crawlers can follow them.
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