Does anyone know how AJAX enabled sites affect Google indexing and pageranks? I have a site that makes heavy use of ajax such that when a vistor first arives they get a plain (nicely graphical) launch page. Not much contents but very nice graphics. Then over time as they click around ajax kicks in and dynamically generates content, loading them into various parts of the page. Am i greatly reducing my chances of a good PR with google because i dont have much content upon first visit?? My site is in beta, whilst im working out how to best optimize it for search engines To see it click on "parent liquid lounge" on the far right tool bar on www .liquidlounge.com.au. The parent liquid lounge site might not work for you if you dont have IE (as it makes heavy use of ajax)
it is said Google does not read javascript, so what is in javascript Google should not read it. PR and content are not related.
i understand that PR is directly related to the backlinks your site has with other popular sites etc etc.. But what im saying is that if my site is backlinked from other sites but that backlink resides in an ajax generated piece of content (dynamic content not easily determine by googles bots) then that link is not counted for in the calculation of my PR. As more sites integrate ajax (and believe me there will be alot in the near future). Your backlink will exist in these dynamically created pieces of content. I dont know how google will handle these in there algorithms! My future site will consist of at most 10 pages and hundreds of RSS feeds that drive the content. The content consists of articles, links to other sites, pictures, etc etc. I have no idea how to optimise my site for google based on my architecture. can anyone help me???
You better find a better solution than AJAX if you want the SE's to spider your site. An AJAX driven site reminds me of a frames based site. You really can't bookmark deep pages. I would consider creating a very good sitemap to static versions of your content.
I agree and disagree. Right now i am creating static pages to comply to the spiders requirements for indexing. But im only doing this because theres no other way around this situation. However google and other SE's algorithms will need to evolve to allow for technologies like ajax. Im not 100% sure but im betting that microsoft and its future SE algorithms will cater for this.. Consider this, the microsofts future OS and Vista will have embedded into it RSS for everything (common knowledge). They are building into there OS a implicit searchengine that can share its contents with the rest of the world. Plus there future .net tools have heavy ajax components to it. So im sure there search engine algorithms will be able to measure rss feeds and ajax built content... And another point id like to make, which should be part of its own thread, is regarding google and how there forcing me to develop BAD code. I come up with web site architectures that are pretty good. Then i have to factor in google optimizations, the architecture suffers tremendously cause google requirements for indexing break alot of my design decisions. Its like normalizing a database then having to go back to flat files cause the vendor doesnt support it. Im getting tired of having to redevelop my solutions because they dont comply to how google works.. I cant wait to see microsofts adcenter technology and how they approach the whole developers hell that google has created! (thats my opinion)