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balslev
balslev

Reputation: 361

Ajax Website, problems with History and Seo

I have a few problems i could use some input on.

I have a website, where all the content is loaded with ajax, it works quite well. There are a few issues with that approach though, or some UX issues.

Now, i have searched and read alot. Google has a hack, that seems to allow the site to be crawled, IF you use # in your url, does not work with empty url, which leads me to...

Manipulating the browser history with pushState/popState.

Now, i have tried getting it to work, but i just cant get my head around which process is the best way to take. Should i redo all my ajax?

Right now i have 2 div boxes, and i switch between them with loaded content, to get that nice sweet transition between pages. My frontpage is basically just 2 empty divs, nothing else. It works, but i get the feeling it is a pretty bad way to do it, thoughts?

If anyone know some good guides, feel free to give me, i have as i said read alot, but i might have missed some golden ones out there.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 98

Answers (1)

Jérôme Verstrynge
Jérôme Verstrynge

Reputation: 59634

Google does execute some Javascript when indexing and ranking pages. However, text which is not immediately visible to users is demoted when establishing content relevancy.

Manipulating the browser history with pushState/popState.

It is very unlikely Google will trust your content if you need to use those tricks. And content which is not trusted is not ranked.

UPDATE: Manipulating browser history with pushState is ok.

Moreover, if your URLs change all the time, Google won't appreciate it, unless you manage to set canonical links.

Upvotes: 1

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