Google has updated its Webmaster Guidelines, which will likely affect sites that are blocking JavaScript or CSS files. Google gave explicit advice on allowing Googlebot to access the JavaScript, CSS, ...

This morning, Google began sending out a new notification through the Google Search Console for websites that appear to be blocking their CSS and JavaScript assets. The new warning reads ...

Google announced they’ve updated their webmaster guidelines to specifically note that blocking your CSS or JavaScript files may have a negative impact on your indexing and search rankings in ...

Blocking JavaScript and CSS files can be cause ranking issues in certain situations. One reason is because Google needs some of those files in order to render the the web page and determine if it ...

Google warns against using robots.txt to disallow the crawling of Javascript or CSS files, saying that it directly harms how well Google’s algorithms render and index site content.

What’s better than spending hours and hours with CSS trying to get images and text to center properly? Not [Jim], but he did notice that CSS3 was a very powerful language. He wondered about b… ...

Following its announcement about crawling JavaScript and CSS files, Google released a free tool that can test and solve SEO robots.txt related problems and is compatible with Bing.

Google's Pierre Far wrote, "Disallowing crawling of Javascript or CSS files in your site’s robots.txt directly harms how well our algorithms render and index your content and can result in ...

He associated a site's drop with its accidental blocking of CSS and Javascript files. This was shortly after Google had announced its new Fetch and Render feature in Webmaster Tools.