Google and javascript, new honeymoon

Yes, google can understand some of the javascript links, and will soon be able to understand more. They just said so at the googe I/O gathering.

What does it mean?

It means that for years, we seo experts, were telling you “NO, DON’T, Please take out that ugly javascript link that google doesn’t understand”

Now we will tell you “no, don’t, please take out that ugly javascript link that still many search engines don’t understand, even if google understand it now”.

Baidu doesn’t, yahoo doesn’t, and we don’t know yet about bing (the new Microsoft search engine), but there are big chances that it doesn’t. So, yes, continue not to use javascript links whenever you can, and always prefer the old html link tag <a href=”” title=””> </a>

What are the javascript links google can understand?

google can understand these javascript links :

1. <div onclick="document.location.href='http://gotothispage.com/'">
   
2. <div onclick="myfunctionname('gotothispage.html')"><a href="#" onclick="myfunctionname()">that's a cool page dude</a>
   
3. <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="window.open ('youcometothispage.html')">please open this page</a>

so yes you can use them, but please, avoid them when not necessary...