SEO

[tgrant54]

SEO

[tgrant54]

Thanks for posting this issue.

I have been working on implementing this scheme into Navi. I am working on writing a node module for this purpose and I hope to have it released soon.

[Jonathlee]

Anxiously waiting, been looking for something like this for a long time. Glad you create this plugin.

Btw, regarding on content holder, could we have options

Default : UL > LI
Optional : Section > Article

[tgrant54]

I think I have solved this issue with the use of some back-end code.

I first started to try and get it to work with node+express. I think I got the working correctly, but the code is sloppy. I never published this site to actually test if Google will crawl it (too heavy of load times for the animations). Writing a node module for this purpose does not seem to be the best option (yet).

Next I started to use PHP. I wrote up a custom class that will help render snapshots. I am thinking this is the best solution I have found so far, and I published it to see if Google will crawl it.

However, until Google crawls my site, I will not know if my solution is working properly.

I posted my PHP solution to http://seo.navi.grantcr.com/ . (Maybe in a week Google will have it indexed)

In order to see how the snapshots are done try navigating to something like http://seo.navi.grantcr.com/?_escaped_fragment_=/home (Mimics the crawler's request)

You will notice that

1. The links are converted from "#!/pageName" to "?escaped_fragment=/pageName"
2. The correct menu links will have .active class.
3. The page title is set correctly.
4. The content is static.

After my solution is verified as working I will post the PHP class and also provide a small tutorial on how to get Navi.js to play nice with SEO.

If you would like a sneak-peak at the code, reply and I will post it for you,

As for the content holder.

I will push out a minor update soon to address this.

[Jonathlee]

Hi Tyler,

Now checking on http://seo.navi.grantcr.com/, so far everything works according to Google references.

Will do some searching in Google to see if the URL path works in Google search results.

http://seo.navi.grantcr.com/sitemap.xml - checked, I think some tutorial on checking sitemap.xml is valid according to the new requirements set by Google.

You've done a great job for creating http://seo.navi.grantcr.com/?_escaped_fragment_=/home

Anyway, I should leave some reference links here for future reference or the tutorial.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposal-for-making-ajax-crawlable.html
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174992

[tgrant54]

Seems to be indexed. Google -> "seo.navi.grantcr.com"

Closing this issue, will write up tutorial, and post PHP class soon.