AJAX And Search Engines
Mads Kristensen, writes: In the light of the immense popularity AJAX has received and the emerging tools like Atlas and AJAX.NET, I thought it was the right time to talk about the implications on search engine behaviour on AJAX enabled websites.
In this post I’ll split websites into two categories - the public and the protected. A public website is accessible to all people and does not require login of any kind. It’s the most common type of website out there. The protected website could be an intranet site or a password protected membership site. In other words, the search ngines index the public sites and not the protected sites.
When developing a protected site, you can do just about anything without the concern of search engine ranking. When developing a public website, you do not have that kind of liberty. The public site has to be search engine friendly.
So, when AJAX enabling a public website you have to make sure to keep the search engines happy at all times. If they aren’t happy with your website, neither should you be.
That’s why I’ve made a quick little list of Do’s and Don’ts about AJAX enabling your public website without loosing the search engines in the process.
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