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		mike-cardwell on Jan 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold Now Penaliz... The Googlebot doesn't fetch external css or javascript. How can it be rendering the full page if it doesn't have those resources?

jonknee on Jan 21, 2012 [–]

Googlebot definitely fetches Javascript. How else would it get AJAX pages?

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2122137/Googlebot-Learn...

It also grabs CSS and has for years.

mike-cardwell on Jan 21, 2012 | [–]

My mistake. I just checked my server logs and can see Googlebot fetching these resources now.

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