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Disabling Right Clicking Should Not Hurt Your Google Ranking & SEO

On January 21, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick

A new HighRankings Forum thread asks if there is any downside in terms of SEO for using JavaScript that disables the ability to right-click on the page. The thread asks:

One of my company’s sites has right-click functions disabled (yes, I realize this doesn’t really stop people from stealing content – it wasn’t my choice). I’ve noticed when I use a spider emulator (seo-browser.com) that our image alt tags appear to be invisible to the spiders. I can see the alt tags on the actual site, and I’ve verified that they are in the code, but they don’t seem to show up for spiders. Could this be caused by our right-click disabling?

Most people in the thread say that it should have no impact on spiders crawling the site.

I then saw an older thread from Google Webmaster Help where Googler, JohnMu, said the same thing. He said and I bolded the key point:

Personally, I find the use of right-click-blocking JavaScript slightly annoying because there are many legitimate reasons why you might want to use the context menu (eg to bookmark the page) and it doesn’t really stop people from viewing the source (Ctrl-U brings it up if you don’t want to use the main menu). That said, this is not something that would bother Googlebot :-) .

Forum discussion at HighRankings Forum & Google Webmaster Help.


A new HighRankings Forum thread asks if there is any downside in terms of SEO for using JavaScript that disables the ability to right-click on the page. The thread asks:

One of my company’s sites has right-click functions disabled (yes, I realize this doesn’t really stop people from stealing content – it wasn’t my choice). I’ve noticed when I use a spider emulator (seo-browser.com) that our image alt tags appear to be invisible to the spiders. I can see the alt tags on the actual site, and I’ve verified that they are in the code, but they don’t seem to show up for spiders. Could this be caused by our right-click disabling?

Most people in the thread say that it should have no impact on spiders crawling the site.

I then saw an older thread from Google Webmaster Help where Googler, JohnMu, said the same thing. He said and I bolded the key point:

Personally, I find the use of right-click-blocking JavaScript slightly annoying because there are many legitimate reasons why you might want to use the context menu (eg to bookmark the page) and it doesn’t really stop people from viewing the source (Ctrl-U brings it up if you don’t want to use the main menu). That said, this is not something that would bother Googlebot :-) .

Forum discussion at HighRankings Forum & Google Webmaster Help.



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Important blog post on Google blog

On January 12, 2010, In SEO, by Matt Cutts

This is an important blog post. Go read it from the source.
Update: David Drummond from Google appears on CNBC to discuss the situation more.
Also, Google just made it so that Gmail defaults to https. This means that even if you use a public wifi hotspot, you’ll have an encrypted tunnel for the communication between your [...]

This is an important blog post. Go read it from the source.

Update: David Drummond from Google appears on CNBC to discuss the situation more.

Also, Google just made it so that Gmail defaults to https. This means that even if you use a public wifi hotspot, you’ll have an encrypted tunnel for the communication between your browser and Google. This makes your email much more secure against sniffing or snooping.

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Google Updates iPhone & Android Gmail & Calendar Interface

On November 20, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

Gone mostly unnoticed, Google has updated their Gmail and Google Calendar interface on iPhone and Android mobile devices. Google did announce a new mobile news look for these devices, but no word on the Gmail interface.

I spotted this update via the Google Mobile Help forums, where Googler, Ethan, confirmed the update. He said:

Gmail updated its look & feel in the browser on Android and iPhone devices today. Some of Google’s other mobile apps, like Calendar, have also gotten the new look. Other than the ‘re-skinning,’ features are unchanged for now.

Here is what the new ‘skin’ looks like on the iPhone:

New Gmail & Google Calendar on iPhone

Here is the old one:

New Gmail & Google Calendar on iPhone

Small difference, but someone noticed.

Forum discussion at Google Mobile Help.


Gone mostly unnoticed, Google has updated their Gmail and Google Calendar interface on iPhone and Android mobile devices. Google did announce a new mobile news look for these devices, but no word on the Gmail interface.

I spotted this update via the Google Mobile Help forums, where Googler, Ethan, confirmed the update. He said:

Gmail updated its look & feel in the browser on Android and iPhone devices today. Some of Google’s other mobile apps, like Calendar, have also gotten the new look. Other than the ‘re-skinning,’ features are unchanged for now.

Here is what the new ‘skin’ looks like on the iPhone:

New Gmail & Google Calendar on iPhone

Here is the old one:

New Gmail & Google Calendar on iPhone

Small difference, but someone noticed.

Forum discussion at Google Mobile Help.



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See Your Site As The Search Engines Do

On November 6, 2009, In SEO, by Nick Stamoulis

How do the search engines see your site – do you know? Search engines do not see your site with the same eyes as your visitors. All the search engine sees is the code that goes behind the rendering of each page in a browser. Is it important to know how the search engine views [...]

How do the search engines see your site – do you know? Search engines do not see your site with the same eyes as your visitors. All the search engine sees is the code that goes behind the rendering of each page in a browser. Is it important to know how the search engine views your site?

Yes and no. You can do a quick check using any number of tools including the view source option in your browser. But is that how the search engine sees the page? If you have a Webmaster Tools account then Google is Lab trialing a Googlebot option that displays the page as Google sees it.

It’s an easy way to check the pages meta tags and to see how high in the code the pages content starts. You can also do a quick visual check of anchors and tags within your content.

While your looking at the Lab section in Google Webmaster Tools, you can also check your site for any malware problems – another lab function that is being trialled through Webmaster Tools. Mind you – if the tool does indicate malware then you can guarantee Google will have already suspended your search result listings. Not to worry, once you remove the malware problem you can use the same set of tools to request reinclusion – not bad for a free set of tools.

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