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  How do I set up an external JavaScript?

  Posted by Robert Stoelting on February 1, 2007 at 7:21 pm

  I read in “Web Site Services” that externalizing JavaScripts helps with SEO by getting the script out of the top of the page. I don’t know how to write JavaScripts, but I use prepared scripts from Dreamweaver and other sources. How/Where can I learn to make these scripts external and reference them on the pages I use them on (without having to learn JavaScript)?

  Curtis Thompson replied 19 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Curtis Thompson

  February 1, 2007 at 7:27 pm

  hello…

  pretty simple – just take the javascript block you have (just the js code – not the wrapper <SCRIPT> and comment lines) and put it in an external file somewhere and name it [NAME].js (with your own [NAME] naturally) – then reference it in one script call line:

  <SCRIPT SRC=”[NAME.js” type=”text/javascript”></SCRIPT>

  more here:

  https://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/external.shtml

  sitruc

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