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August 2, 2005

AJAX and SEO

Filed under: General,Misc — Scott @ 12:38 pm

Until recently ( ok until about ten minutes ago ) I thought that I would never use AJAX since the content would be loaded dynamically and it would never be read via a search engine. I was wrong.

I am working on a site that has a very heavily linked front page. It is similar to Yahoo in that there are all sorts of destinations that a user might wish to go to. (before you even start it is not a directory service / scrapper so stuff a sock in it ) The number of links on the homepage is well over 200 and the page size is over 60k.

The links are structured in a Major heading and followed by the sub links in a box underneath the heading format ( ie: yahoo style ). It occurred to me that I could use AJAX to pull the links in the major categories and load them in the boxes. This would reduce the number of links seen by a SE bot, fail gracefully for a person with javascript off ( the sub pages have the links needed ), and reduce overall page size.

Viola! AJAX actually helped my SEO

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