Ajax for Google

As a web developer there are things that you should remember especially in search engines. These sites are the ones that will dictate whether the website will be popular or not. Unfortunately, Google’s web crawler is not smart enough to check Ajax based websites. That means when you have a pure Ajax based website, there is a possibility that the website will never be indexed by Google. If a website is not indexed, there is a greater possibility that the site will never be visited by any random visitor because they needed something in a website. Google was kind enough to admit this bad news and was even great in providing tips on how you could possibly index your website without compromising what’s inside it. First and foremost you have to remember that Ajax is quite mean to JavaScript. It has been used time and again to cheat Google’s Web Robots. They do this by providing different links and key words but actually contain something utterly different. Cloaking the website with something different is a serious matter for Google so you have to stay true as to how you describe your website compared to the actual contents. If you need to have a website rendered in Ajax, Google recommends you start in HTML rather than inserting some random HTML codes in your webpage. When the website is built in HTML, Google will easily recognize a website’s foundation especially when they are rendered in HTML. For Ajax based sites that’s built in JavaScript, Google hasn’t figured it out yet how to crawl or index a website on JavaScript although the irony of this is that Google is essentially the evangelist of everything Ajax has represented. So in the mean time, you have to work with Google or else you can expect to be virtually unknown to Google – unless you pay them. If you already had an Ajax based website and don’t want to make some changes, check your website through the Lynx browser. This is a no-nonsense browser because it only reads the text part of the Ajax based website. Anything “fancy” such as images, videos, Flash and JavaScript codes will not be interpreted by this browser. This is a very useful tool if you want to use check what are the actual HTML and Text parts of your browser. That way you’ll be able to see what the keywords in your website are and know the keywords that are used in your website. This is quiet impossible for some but there’s an actual trick most of the developers in Ajax are using nowadays. Called Hijax by its creator Jeremy Keith, you’ll be able to stream the URL together with the Ajax coding. Although it’s quite complicated, it’s a very useful trick that you should know as Google has become the leader not only in search engine but in other tools as well. Google hasn’t faded in its position as the leader in search engines and it doesn’t show any changes for years to come. Learn the tricks and codes that Google suggests and your Ajax based websites will be just fine in the face of search engines.