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ntan
ntan

Reputation: 2205

full ajax site and SEO

i am planing to start a full ajax site project, and i was wondering about SEO.

The site will have urls like www.mysite.gr/#/category1 etc

Can Google crawl the site.

Is something that i have to noticed about full ajax and SEO

Any reading suggestions are welcome

Thanks

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5077

Answers (7)

Zoltan Bettenbuk
Zoltan Bettenbuk

Reputation: 1

Imagine having to hit the “refresh” button in your browser to update your Twitter feed rather than just hitting the button on the page itself and having it instantly update? These are the types of problems that AJAX solves, although it does come with its pitfalls. Google might claim it’s able to crawl and parse AJAX websites, yet it’s risky to just take its word for it and leave your website’s organic traffic up to chance. Even though Google can usually index dynamic AJAX content, it’s not always that simple. This guide covers some of the things that can go wrong and how you can make sure your AJAX website is crawlable: https://prerender.io/ajax-seo/

Upvotes: 0

Tayyab Ali
Tayyab Ali

Reputation: 431

Google itself doesn't crawl ajax content but advice a mechanism for it. For this you first need to change # to #!

Whole process to SEO AJAX content is explained here along with simple asp.net code to start working on it.

Upvotes: 0

GStephens
GStephens

Reputation: 517

Google supports indexing of AJAX sites, but unfortunately it involves extra work for the developer. See http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started.html

Upvotes: 3

GSto
GSto

Reputation: 42350

In addition to SEO, you also need to think about usability standards here. A site that is that reliant on AJAX isn't going to work for things like screen-readers as well as spiders. You need a system for graceful degreadation. A website that can't function without JavaScript isn't really a functioning website.

Upvotes: 1

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 191

I don't think Google is capable of doing so (yet) http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposal-for-making-ajax-crawlable.html

However you can of course make your site usable with or without JavaScript. That way, browsers will have the full candy stuff and Google (and text browsers) still can navigation your site.

Upvotes: 2

amelvin
amelvin

Reputation: 9051

The search engines will spider the initial page load - what happens to the page (with ajax) after that is irrelevant to listings.

Upvotes: 0

Arnis Lapsa
Arnis Lapsa

Reputation: 47577

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/768233/do-hashes-in-urls-affect-seo

You might want to read about so called progressive enhancement.

Upvotes: 3

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