What I don't understand is why can't we use Book?page=1 instead of Book#page=1 for Silverlight with deep linking and bookmarking instead of teh less SE friendly approach (Book#page=1)
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Jonas Follesø <[email protected]> wrote: > I would recommend the following setup: > > Book?page=1 for Search Engine Indexing & Silverlight > Book#page=1 for Silverlight with deep linking and bookmarking > > When the user hits the first URL (the one with HTML content) you render the > full page in HTML, and then use JavaScript to instantiate the Silverlight > control if the browser has the plugin installed. This means that if the user > hits the link from Google, and have Silverlight, they get the full > experience. If not - they get HTML, and Search enginges can index it. > > For the second URL (the #) you only render the Silverlight component, and > dynamically load the correct content. > > To enable indexing of all content, you create a Sitemap file dynamically > that links to all your Book?page=1 ... n. > > Your biggest problem with Silverlight and SEO is Page Rank, which is > different from beeing able to index the content. > > Your user enters the page, opens a book and starts flipping pages. He finds > something he want to blog about or share, so he copies the url: Book#page=4. > He writes a blog post, linking to that URL. The problem is that when Google > hits your blog, and finds the link to the Silverlight page, the crawler will > ignore any #-link, meaning that a link to Book#page=4 only adds to the Page > Ranke of Book. > > Do you follow? So the problem is that people using Silverlight will start > linking to Book#page=4, while non Silverlight users will link to > Book?page=4, which will generate the correct Page Rank. > > I think the only way to get around this (unless Google changes their > crawler) - is to have a "Share this page" button, which will generate a > Book?page=4 link and encoure users to share that URL on blogs/facebook etc. > instead of sharing the Book#page=4 link which is what they can copy from the > adress bar. > > Planning to do a blog post about this. :) > > - Jonas > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:38 AM, John OBrien <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Anyway know of a website rendering multiple pages of content that provides >> a W3C compliant HTML version when the device can't use Silverlight? >> >> >> >> I have a client wanting to publish a book using a nice Silverlight >> interface but still want the content available for SearchBots and those not >> wanting or unable to install the runtime. >> >> The concept we proposed is to publish two versions, use # tags for >> navigation in Silverlight, detect if not supported and redirect to HTML >> version following similar URL structure with links to view/install >> Silverlight. >> >> >> >> The concept is simple enough, no matter what link people bookmark others >> will get to the same content, the user must choose to use the richer >> interface if they end up on the HTML version. Is there a better way? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> John. >> >> ________________________________ >> Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support >> List address: [email protected] >> Subscribe: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: [email protected] >> List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight >> Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists > > ________________________________ > Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support > List address: [email protected] > Subscribe: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight > Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists -- Miguel A. Madero Reyes www.miguelmadero.com (blog) [email protected] +52 (871) 835-1837 +52 (871) 125-1680 Peten #509 Fracc Florida Blanca, 27260 Torreón, Coahuila -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists
