00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:40 - Sponsor: AlsoAsked

00:04:25 - Sponsor: Core Updates

00:05:43 - Welcome back, Patrick Hathaway

00:07:17 - What was the inspiration for this JavaScript SEO study?

00:10:07 - A two part study combining the survey & Sitebulb data

00:11:12 - The JavaScript skills gap in SEO

00:12:48 - The evolution of JavaScript and the internet

00:14:55 - Why JavaScript is popular for new developers

00:16:32 - Google’s JavaScript documentation

00:18:04 - The anti-JavaScript movement in SEO

00:20:03 - The opacity of fixing JavaScript problems

00:20:30 - Google has improved their JavaScript rendering

00:22:00 - How important is it to understand JavaScript for SEOs?

00:23:45 - Why SEOs should learn how to use DevTools

00:27:05 - Communicating with developers

00:28:32 - Don’t be afraid to ask developers questions

00:30:35 - Be honest if you don’t know

00:31:15 - A third of SEOs don’t feel comfortable investigating JavaScript issues

00:33:07 - How to communicate the value of technical SEO fixes

00:36:28 - How to reduce the JavaScript SEO skills gap

00:39:57 - We should communicate more interdisciplinarily

00:42:40 - Understand when key elements are being changed by JavaScript

00:46:37 - Sitebulb’s hints and resources are great

00:48:43 - A JavaScript horror story with Squarespace

00:50:00 - More people are using Sitebulb’s Chrome crawler than ever before

00:51:30 - The problem with plugins

00:53:10 - Where to follow Patrick & Sitebulb

00:55:16 - Outro

00:57:03 - Next week’s guest is SEOJoBlogs AKA Jo Juliana Turnbull!