i have a site that has been built for me and does really well on all search engines but not google. i have been told its because a lot of the site content is generated in javascript, could anyone feeback if that could be whats holding it back?
Your post title says "javascript", while your actual post says "jsp". Those are two different technologies, one client-side (javascript) and one server-side (jsp). If the content of your site is displayed using javascript, and not viewable when javascript is disabled, then that's a big problem and goes beyond search engine optimization. You should follow some basic accessibility guidelines. If you did mean JSP, and not javascript, then that shouldn't be a problem with Google. If your URLs are in the form of yourPage.jsp?something=something then you might want to do some URL re-writing. Search around for search engine friendly urls
sorry for the confusion, i think i see your point, i just had a look at my site www.algarverentalapartments.com with javascript tunred off and couldnt see any of the page content!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhh i think i am in trouble!
Did he change his original post, because I don't see JSP. Regardless, there's a lot of fear mongering regarding javascript that should be ignored. Google indexes javascript. In fact, my experience is that Google is the best at indexing javascript. As you can see, Google is indexing your javascript. That said, you'll always be indexed better with plain HTML then with equivalent javascript. Your site in particular is pretty damn ugly javascript.
thanks for that yep did change the entry to make it a bit clearer! I can see the site is indexing but when i turn off javascript all the content dissapears - i figured that was a bad sign!