Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category

Making ajax content availble to search engines

Nowadays, more and more sites are developed using ajax because of its interactivity, ease of use, and speed.
Although it has obvious advantages there are some drawbacks:

Ajax pages don’t register themselves in browser history, so the back button become useless
Because the url remains the same through different requests, the bookmarking doesn’t work as expected
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How to change your site url structure

Most of us had this problem:
We found a link with an interesting title, click on it and all it showed was a “This page cannot be found message”
So why does this happen?
Well, the link most probably was valid some time ago, but site owners decided to change the site arhitecture. So, what was once http://www.example.com/article.php?id=243 [...]