Ajax is seo friendly ? Please describe me the pros and cons. i have four tabs in a page, all uses different iframes to show data. I want to use ajax for replacing iframes . could css be the better option ?? Thanks!
Depend on how you make it , you can make it seo friendly and you could make it seo enemy . just depend ...
The Ajax debate is interesting. IMHO I think that there can be too much Ajax especially if you're talking about bot friendly pages. What do you need Ajax for? Do you need Ajaxed forms on every page? If not then use server generated pages instead. You've got to ask yourself how much work are Google doing to make sure that their bots deal with the masses of Javascript in an Ajaxed page?
IFRAMEs are not SEO Friendly in first place. So looks like your site is not SEO friendly. Moreover one thing to remember is Robots don't understand javascript, and AJAX is javascript. So robots would not get anything from your AJAX pages. If the area of site that you are mentioning is for users and you do not expect users to find it through SE then forget about SEO and make it pleasant to use for user but on the other hand, if you want to get organic traffic, then you better do a good job on SEO.
AJAX is definitely NOT SEO friendly! You need to make sure your site degrades when javascript is turned off. Search engines have no way of reading your ajax related content.
I will never use Ajax as we know it : using js. There is ZK framwork and I am not sure why it's one of the most active projects in sourceforge. It uses no js.
XML and javascript, no search engines cant understand javascript it depends about what AJAX you use and why you use it
AJAX is not SEO friendly, by default, but you can still successfully optimize a site that uses AJAX. You need to really plan your site development well though. Here's an explanation of some of the issues you'll face with AJAX SEO.
i have been quite late to respond . Anyway thanks everybody for your responses and WebGeek182 the article was really good.