<p>We have an SEO team at my office, and one of their dictums is that having lots of &lt;script&gt; blocks inline with the HTML is apocalypticly bad. As a developer that makes no sense to me at all. Surely the Google search engineers, who are the smartest people on the planet, know how to skip over such blocks? <br />
My gut instinct is that minimizing script blocks is a superstition that comes from the early ages of search engine optimizations, and that in today's world it means nothing. Does anyone have any insight on this?</p>

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<p>per our SEO guru, script blocks (especially those that are in-line, or occur before actual content) are very, very bad, and make the google bots give up before processing your actual content. Seems like bull to me, but I'd like to see what others say.</p>

I don't know about the SEO aspect of this (because I never can tell the mambo jambo from the real deal). But as Douglas Crockford pointed out in one of his javascript webcasts the browser always stops for parsing the script, at each  element. So, if possible, I'd rather deliver the whole document and enhance the page as late as possible with scripts anyway.
Something like
```
<head>
    --stylesheets--
</head>
<body>
  Lorem ipsum dolor
  ...
  ...
  <script src="theFancyStuff.js"></script>
</body>
```