AJAX and SEO

Hello everyone,

Im in need of some advise from user with expirience around ajax and seo.

I will describe my issue as best as i can and hopefully someone can help on it.

so i have a site around cheats in multiplayer games (please do not hijack my topic and do not discuss your personal point of view on cheating in multiplayer games)

and for fast browsing expirience i decided to retrieve and display the content with ajax, without the need of the whole page reloading but just the content, as this is mainly the only thing that changes anyways.

so i use ajax for my content on my index

www.cheat-project.com
and on each category
example:
http://www.cheat-project.com/category/38/Counter-Strike-1.6

the only site where i do not use ajax to retrieve the content is the details view of each cheat

for example
http://www.cheat-project.com/cheat/933/HookShark-BETA/

so im aware of the fact that spiders and users with turned off javascript will be presented an empty site for this case i have added the <noscript> tag and included the exact same content i retrieved with ajax when javascript is enabled. (without pagination, working on this)

Now the issue i have is that spiders can now see the content on my index and category view thanks to the <noscript> tag but they seem to be having trouble to follow the links and get to the details view of each cheat (or atleast it doesnt get indexed) why this bothers me is that i have optimised the details view of each cheat to have the best possible meta title/description and keyword density for each cheat. Therefore my SERP is not the best it could be as it either displays my index in the serp with the keyword (cheat name) appearing once in the description or the category view where the keyword aswell appears only once in the description.

I have aswell submited a sitemap of course including the pages that ajax retrieves and displays

example:
http://www.cheat-project.com/ajax_index.php

Now of course my question is why doesnt it follow the links and index the detail view of each cheat ? is this an issue with <noscript> tag and how google handles that tag ? Also does google not follow links on pages included in the sitemap ? seems like as it only indexes the links that are inside the sitemap and not the links within the page.

And of course i would like to have an advise on how i can achieve google to index the details view without me submitting each cheat to digg or other social bookmarking sites.

Please do not come up with answers like remove ajax. im aware that removing ajax will solve this issue, but im trying to figure a way to keep ajax and still have all my sites indexed, especially the details view of each cheat.

Thanks in advance to everyone reading this and trying to help
Best Regards

 

Good post, Book marked..

Thanks. I'll study later..

 

okay now im back with a little update. so since my details page didnt get indexed i decided to digg them until i find a solution.. normally when i dugg my pages they were indexed within minutes or atleast within a day. now as it seems this aswell doesnt work anymore. submitting my details pages to digg didnt get them indexed like it was supposed to. so im stuck and running out of ideas with this.

and now that even digging doesnt get my pages indexed. im guessing this is not an ajax issue anymore