Can Google Bot View Links on a Wix Page?
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Hi,
The way Wix is configured you can't see any of the on-page links within the source code.
Does anyone know if Google Bots still count the links on this page?
Here is the page in question: https://www.ncresourcecenter.org/business-directory
If you do think Google counts these links, can you please send me URL fetcher to prove that the links are crawlable?
Thank you SO much for your help.
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Google tries to index the rendered page, not the raw page code. The best way to see that page as Google sees it is to use the Fetch and Render tool in Google Search Console.
Alternately, you can use the developer tools in Chrome or Firefox to show the rendered version of the page code. Right-click in an area of the page you wish to view, and then select Inspect. This will bring up the inspector which will show you the rendered page code close to how Google sees it. (Google uses Chrome V42 for indexing, while the current version of Chrome is 62 - so you're not necessarily seeing exactly what G is seeing, which is why Fetch and Render is more the view G actually sees.)
The screenshot below shows the Inspect method of viewing the rendered page in current Chrome - but as I say, safest is to view within Google Search Console's Fetch tool.
Hope that helps?
Paul
P.S. This is an example of why Wix is not recommended for critical websites - it's using JavaScript methods to render basic page content which Google "says" it can index, but it's depending on a completely non-standard way of presenting page content which depends on search crawlers deviating from their standard methods to try to crawl it. (And there have been incidents in the past where G's crawling capabilti8y for this kind of JavaScript wasn't indexing it properly, causing major issues for a huge number of sites.)
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