: Content of html snapshot for Search engines I've asked this before on Stackoverflow, but I figured moving it here would be appropriate. For presentational reasons, I'm currently build an Ajax/parameter

I've asked this before on Stackoverflow, but I figured moving it here would be appropriate.

For presentational reasons, I'm currently build an Ajax/parameter driven page. I'm trying to figure out how to present it to Google properly, which brought me to Google's page here. The backend of the page would allow me to present a "static" version of the page with php. This raises the following question for me:

What does Google want/allow in the html snapshot? Do I need to present it with the excessive styling I use in the user version, or can I simply serve it the plain text/image content I dynamically get in the user version? Also, can I have different metadata in the Google version? (that is, specific metadata for every parameter based url, since altering it with javascript on the page itself would not be visible to Google?)

I hope i have made myself clear here.

Thanks

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: If both URLs pull up the same content then you'll have issues with duplicate content. Duplicate content doesn't cause any lowering of rankings but it will force Google to choose one URL over

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: 1) Do a 301 redirect from one to the other. Here is the code you can place in an .htaccess file in your webroot (change your_domain.com to be your actual domain): RewriteEngine on RewriteCond

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: Possible reasons: The version of PHP or MySQL has changed and code that is either obsolete or dependent on a side effect of a function that has been fixed and no longer occurs is now broken

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Why don't you just make sure your Ajax powered content is crawlable? Otherwise you're essentially building your site twice which is just silly. But if you take this route do not use different meta data. Even though meta tags do not affect rankings you may still run the risk of being seen as serving up special content to the search engines which is considered black hat and can get you penalized or banned.

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: Content of html snapshot for Search engines I've asked this before on Stackoverflow, but I figured moving it here would be appropriate. For presentational reasons, I'm currently build an Ajax/parameter

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: According to a comment at the Sitepoint CSS reference page for font-weight there are at least IE issues on Windows: I would argue that none of the browsers listed support font-weight

: If both URLs pull up the same content then you'll have issues with duplicate content. Duplicate content doesn't cause any lowering of rankings but it will force Google to choose one URL over

: 1) Do a 301 redirect from one to the other. Here is the code you can place in an .htaccess file in your webroot (change your_domain.com to be your actual domain): RewriteEngine on RewriteCond

: Possible reasons: The version of PHP or MySQL has changed and code that is either obsolete or dependent on a side effect of a function that has been fixed and no longer occurs is now broken

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