Stickybomb Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 hi i am working on a project. it is going to be a rather large site and we are looking into controling the page content through ajax. so baically there will be one page and the content will be created through an ajax call to a seperate file. for each link clicked. My question is how would this affect search engines, what are the down sides and upsides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainewoods Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 ajax is all down side with seo! To see what google might see on your site, turn javascript off in your browser and surf your site. You would see that the links that loaded ajax content are 'dead' links to the search engines now and it will see none of that content. If you make your web site all one page then the search engines are liable to only index that page and only the initial load state of that page, no content created by javascript or ajax will be indexed. The techniques to use extensive ajax and get good seo too are tricky and time consuming. Not a job for someone that's a beginner with ajax and seo. If seo is a high priority with you, do not base you site on ajax and only use javascript sparingly! First create the web site with javascript turned off to make sure all of the content is findable with js off then maybe add some modust javascripts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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