Jeff, Thanks for the warning. I think your warning is significant enough to dissuade me from trying my way. I'll have to think of another, or buy your book... I took a quick look at your book in Amazon, and it looks comprehensive and well written.
john... On Sep 30, 7:49 am, jdwyah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey John, > From what I can tell, you need to be careful with that approach > (although it's pretty darn cool). Google get's very nervous when it > finds out that the googlebot is going one place but users are going > another since this is something that evil, spam-y websites do. It's > tough to get a definitive answer, but my decision from reading the > google bot forums was that it was too dangerous to try this approach. > > I'm totally biased of course, but you might check out the interview I > did with InfoQ that includes a free chapter of my book. The chapter > just happens to be the one about SEO with GWT, so you might find it > useful. It's available athttp://www.infoq.com/articles/progwt > > My solution was to serialize data into the page itself instead of RPC > and then output in <noscript> tags. The process is described in the > chapter available above. > > gl, > > -Jeff > > On Sep 28, 11:41 pm, John Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Please advise concerning my approach for enabling googlebot to index > > my GWT site:http://www.SudokuComplete.com/ > > > First, I needed to create a static, flattened, html-only view of my > > website. To do this, I created a simple .Net program that uses the IE > > WebBrowser control to navigate to my GWT site. The program takes a > > URL with a history token, let's the browser run through the GWT > > javascript, and then saves a copy of the resulting DOM html to a file > > with a name based on the history token. This file is essentially an > > html-only view of the site as-of the history token. I use the program > > to save static versions of each of the major history tokens on the > > site. These files are the ones I want googlebot to index. And to > > provide navigation for googlebot, I add links between all the files at > > the end of each of them. > > > Next, I created my "UserBotRouter", a .Net HttpModule (analagous to a > > J2EE Web Filter) that analizes the incoming requests to the website. > > It checks the UserAgent header to see if the request is being made by > > a bot or a standard browser. If it is a bot, then it routes the > > request to the appropriate static html page (created in step #1). If, > > however, a standard (non-bot) browser requests one of the static > > pages, then my module sends an HTTP redirect to send the user's > > browser to the corresponding GWT page including the respective history > > token. In this manner, I am able to route users to the GWT pages, and > > bots to the static HTML pages. > > > Am I missing anything? Does this sound like a workable approach? > > > Can GWT build something like this into their compiler? That is, if > > GWT compiles different versions for the different browsers, why not > > create a set of standard "bot" pages. In the module XML file the > > developer could specify the tokens for which GWT should create html > > pages. GWT would use an approach similar to mine above to create > > static html files for the tokens. Then, in these static html files, > > some javascript could redirect the browser to the corresponding GWT > > url. This javascript redirect would affect actual user's browsers, > > whereas bots would continue to read the page as-is, following links to > > the other static pages. > > > Please let me know what you think, > > > john...- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
