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Don't block Googlebot from crawling JavaScript and CSS

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How blocking Googlebot from accessing JavaScript and CSS files can negatively impact website indexing and search ranking.

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What people say. Recommended as a reference explaining that Googlebot crawls and renders JavaScript and CSS to understand page content.

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Googlebot crawler takes since last year js and css as stated by Matt Cutts in this video: link to this video To answer your question there is a fresh Matt Cutts video here link to this video. What he says is that if you use js or css to hide content in a non-spammish way google will not take action against it and will consider your content just like any other content on your site.
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