SMX Overtime: 3 steps to make e-commerce faceted pages crawlable and optimizable
Technical SEO pro Jill Brown offers ways retailers can add content to AJAX-generated category pages.
Topic: AFC Ajax
Google can crawl AJAX just fine
No special action necessary for webmasters.
Yes, Googlebot can detect JavaScript redirects
JavaScript redirects are followed similarly to server-side redirects, Google explained.
Google confirms AJAX (i.e. XHR) calls consume crawl budget
One more thing to look at if you need to optimize your crawl budget for the most efficient Googlebot crawl of your pages.
Google updates mobile-friendly test, rich results test tools to better support JavaScript sites
Is your site heavily built in JavaScript? No worries. Google just updated two of its popular tools to support it.
Google will stop using the old AJAX crawling scheme in Q2 2018
Googlebot will render the #! URL directly, making it unnecessary for the website owner to provide a rendered version of the page.
New: Google Search Console Fetch & Render Shows Severity Of Blocked Resources
Google added a new feature to the blocked resources report in the fetch and render tool within the Google Search Console.
Google Has Discontinued Its Support For Its AJAX Crawling Scheme
After several months of hinting, Google has finally confirmed they have discontinued their AJAX crawling scheme. Don't worry, Google will still index your AJAX site.
Google Working On Fixing Problem With Wix Websites Not Showing Up In Search Results
Recently, Wix Web pages have been dropping out of the Google index. Google said they are working on resolving the issue.
Six Key Themes From “Meet The Search Engines” At SMX East
Contributor Eric Enge recaps a discussion with Gary Illyes (Google) and Duane Forrester (Bing) about the current and future state of search engines.
SearchCap: Google AdWords Value Alerts, Google Crawl AJAX & Google Reading Level Dropped
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land:
Google May Discontinue Its AJAX Crawlable Guidelines
Does your site use AJAX? Well, Google may stop crawling those pages. More details to come from Google as early as next week.
Google’s Matt Cutts On Hidden Text Using Expandable Sections: “You’ll Be In Good Shape”
In the latest video answer from Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts, he answers a question about “hiding” text in JavaScript/AJAX-like expandable menus. Matt said that generally this practice is acceptable within Google’s webmaster guidelines, if and only if, it is being done in a non-spammy way. Use of expandable content sections is very […]
Bing Offers Recommendations for SEO-Friendly AJAX: Suggests HTML5 pushState
Bing has announced support for HTML5 pushState as a way to implement AJAX on a site in a way that enables Bing to crawl and index the URLs and content. As Google has supported this implementation since early 2012, site owners finally have an AJAX option that can be crawled and indexed by both major […]
Facebook Comments Now Being Indexed By Google
Add-on commenting systems like Facebook Comments enhance the user experience, but can make it harder for search engines to index content. Most third party commenting systems leverage javascript to display information and add bells and whistles. However, Labnol.org reported that now Facebook Comments are being crawled (and ranking) in Google’s SERPs effectively breaking the mold for third party […]
Google May Be Crawling AJAX Now – How To Best Take Advantage Of It
In October 2009, Google proposed a new standard for implementing AJAX on web sites that would help search engines extract the content. Now, there’s evidence this proposal is either live or is about to be. Read on for more details on the proposal, how it works, and why it might be past the proposal stage. […]