: How to achieve SEO for XHTML pages which load data in DOM using a JQuery-AJAX service calls? I have a simple website (5-8 XHTML pages and a payment gateway to be done) with about 1500 products

@Jamie184

You can load any data with Ajax call. For example, this site changes the title of all pages (it could be a meta tag too) with JavaScript and Google indexes them correctly.
This site uses the "escaped URL fragments" method to be indexed.

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@Cofer257

Generally google or other crawl engines won't execute your js code and so they don't load your meta tags. But still there are ways to make your site seo friendly.

There are two ways I know. One is Hijax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijax) and other is the html snapshot method using 'escaped url fragments' or some other method.

In my opinion, hijax is more cleaner. In this method, you just have to differentiate between browser requesting your page and crawler requesting your page. I don't know how you are triggering your ajax page changing. Information about that would be more helpful. You just have to display all the page contents including meta data without worrying about appearance or user experience from the server side only when requesting from crawler where no JavaScript would get executed.

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