Friday, October 19, 2012

Dynamic, widget based Web and SEO

In the movement to a dynamic, widget-based Web (meaning, no-page-base), one of the biggest risks is SEO. If your web site is one page, and its states differ only by a hash tag (a common technique) - will the different pages be indexed by Google, Bing and the other fellas?

Let's see. I've set up two slides using Google Doc presentations:

  • Lior Messinger is cool: here
  • Lior Messinger is uncool: here

This was done on October 19th, 2012 at 3PM. 

At 3:05, No results found for "Lior Messinger is cool".

Let's see how much time it takes Google to index it, given we've provided a first link to here from this blog.

Once it is indexed, we'll examine the hash tag access.

Stay tuned!

Update 1:
3:06PM: almost as soon as I saved this blog post, Google found it when search for "Lior Messinger is cool". No word on the presentation
No word on it on Bing

Update 2:
2 Days later: Both Lior Messinger is cool and Lior Messinger is uncool point to the first page of the presentation. This means, that hash tags ARE followed by the crawler. But - they are NOT shown in the Google results links

Ok.

And, to this day, a week later, neither Bing nor Yahoo picked up any of these pages.

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