On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have 3 questions regarding GWT Apps and search engine crawlers > (particularly googlebot): > 1. I implemented the AJAX crawling > scheme http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started.html on > some websites with static small HTML pages created on the server for > googlebot. > However it seems to me that googlebot indexes a lot less content from > websites using this scheme. Does anyone know any GWT websites using AJAX > crawling scheme where a "site:" search in google delivers many and fresh > results? Or any other advice and experience in this area??
You can use Google's Webmastertools and the "Crawl as Googlebot" tool to check out how your site looks like for Google. Normally it should index the very same content... > 2. On Sites using "#!" in their URL (like google groups here) I ALWAYS see a > directory-like structure after the hashtag. Something like > #!/value1/value2/... instead of #!key1=value1&key2=value2 > Is there a reason for that? Especially concerning SEO and PageRank flowing > on the different pages within a site? Sry... No idea on that... There must be some kind of influence because the url is part of the ranking. But I guess it's Google's alchemy. > 3. Google also recommends rendering HTML snapshots of the GWT page on the > server and sending it to googlebot (instead of delivering alternative > "static" HTML pages). Suppose the HTML output of my GWT Application doesn't > have any <a href="...."> links at all because all navigation is done by > other "modern" controls etc.. > Will googlebot then even be able to crawl the snapshot? Or do I have to fall > back to serving static HTML pages with links to googlebot in that case? (or > alternatively adding some classic link elements to my GWT code?). > Thanks for your help and ideas. Yea. You absolutely need <a href tags... If you do something else (aka clickhandler and such) Google will not find it... That might be related to your question 1). Hope that helps a bit... Apart from that #! crawling should just work fine... Best, Raphael -- 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.
